My man Friday Mauricio is just amazing. He does the dishes, cook food, cleans the house, washes & irons my clothes and also folds them (EXACTLY the way i want them folded). The best thing about this chap is that he does things the way i want them to be done.
I love to cook and do try my hand in the kitchen whenever i feel like. I also showed Mauricio a few dishes, both veg and non-veg. One of these dishes was Pepper Chicken. A simple chicken dish prepared with onions, ginger-garlic paste, salt, chicken (obviously), pepper and some coriander for garnishing.
One fine day i showed Mauricio how to prepare this dish. And whenever i wanted it, i would simply point out to the chicken and pepper. He understood what i wanted. Its been 2 months since i have been here and he must have prepared this dish around 5 times; Each time preparing it EXACTLY the way i showed him. The first time he prepared it, the onions were burnt. I did not tell him anything assuming that it might have happened by mistake. The second time he prepared it, the onions were burnt again. I decided to mention this to him but forgot to do so. The same burnt onions appeared when he did it the last two times. Now i would have to talk to him about this.
Around this same time Rishi was leaving for India and was instructing me about how to handle these guys. He said that these guys are like robots. If you show them how to do something they will do it EXACTLY the same way. As he continued this explanation, i suddenly burst out laughing. "What happened?" he asked. "No wonder the onions were burnt." i replied. He looked at me quizzical expression on his face.
It struck me that the first time i cooked pepper chicken in front of Mauricio, i accidentally burnt the onions.
I love to cook and do try my hand in the kitchen whenever i feel like. I also showed Mauricio a few dishes, both veg and non-veg. One of these dishes was Pepper Chicken. A simple chicken dish prepared with onions, ginger-garlic paste, salt, chicken (obviously), pepper and some coriander for garnishing.
One fine day i showed Mauricio how to prepare this dish. And whenever i wanted it, i would simply point out to the chicken and pepper. He understood what i wanted. Its been 2 months since i have been here and he must have prepared this dish around 5 times; Each time preparing it EXACTLY the way i showed him. The first time he prepared it, the onions were burnt. I did not tell him anything assuming that it might have happened by mistake. The second time he prepared it, the onions were burnt again. I decided to mention this to him but forgot to do so. The same burnt onions appeared when he did it the last two times. Now i would have to talk to him about this.
Around this same time Rishi was leaving for India and was instructing me about how to handle these guys. He said that these guys are like robots. If you show them how to do something they will do it EXACTLY the same way. As he continued this explanation, i suddenly burst out laughing. "What happened?" he asked. "No wonder the onions were burnt." i replied. He looked at me quizzical expression on his face.
It struck me that the first time i cooked pepper chicken in front of Mauricio, i accidentally burnt the onions.
2 comments:
dear be careful while instructing these guys.. it can go really really off the track :)
You bet, i will. If this is what can happen during cooking i can only imagine what can happen at work.
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