These days, I am interning in Germany. Of all my hobbies and activities here, cooking is the one that I has received a boost - what with my Indian tummy yearning for Indian food every few days. But ugh! These developed countries. They have to sell everything in big portions (except those things that are quite expensive even in small ones :P) . Frozen spinach. Frozen cut vegetables. Huge cauliflowers. Gigantic cabbage.
So today's incident has to do with giant cabbage. I bought it in a moment of frenzy one day, when I was in the mood to buy stuff, as it turns out, to fill my fridge. After which I lapsed into eating bread with toppings for breakfast and dinner. So this cabbage had been lying in my fridge through at least one week of lethargy. Today was high time. It's time was coming near. I had to finish it. All at once.
Usually, when I am faced with such a situation, I am tempted to use the opportunity to feed someone and collect some compliments in return. But luck was not on my side today. My old roommate wasn't back yet, the new one hadn't turned up yet. Two other people turned down free food. Clearly, the universe was conspiring against me. But bravely, with a knife in hand, I decided to cut this hideous vegetable into small pieces. I had decided - I had to put an end to it today.
By the time I finished cutting, I had 3 pans full of raw cabbage. And no empty pans to cook. And none so big anyway to be able to cook it all together. I decided to cook as much as I could in 1 pan. And eat the rest raw with salad dressing. Bad idea. By the time salad was ready, I hated cabbage too much to eat it. And the cooked vegetable took so long that I decided to make some tomato-onion gravy in the meanwhile (I had unfinished tomato puree, whose time had come, too).
And now this is the status of my cabbage : cooked cabbage for pre-lunch for 3 people, to be eaten with bread by Germans(to dampen the spice :P). Cabbage salad for the dust-bin(I feel guilty for the wastage). And by products - tomato-onion gravy (I prepared too- much of it, as always), for the fridge, until its time comes...
But 1 thing is certain - I am done with cabbage for at least a month!
