He saw in a cookery show the dish - mutton vindaloo. He was tempted by the way it looked - thick and spicy and also the name was so enticing, he cherished to make it one day. He browsed through many internet videos of the recipe and prepared his own version in his mind. Finally, after 5-6 months of procrastinating it due to his busy schedule, he finally made some time to cook it. He bought a kilo of mutton and the other ingredients. He knew them by heart. However, He had to visit many stores to get the red wine vinegar. Returning home, he straightaway went to the kitchen and started preparing the vindaloo masala. He mixed the masala and the mutton and left it in the fridge to marinate overnight.
The whole night he was excited and repeatedly thought sequence wise, how he would make it. Next day, it was a Sunday, at about 11am, he started cooking. He had cooked it so many times in his mind, it didn't feel like first time cooking. He preferred to do slow cooking in a low flame instead of using a pressure cooker. After an hour of cooking, mutton were soft, the gravy thick and the colour was perfect. it was almost done. Still he decided to keep it on low flame for 5 more minutes.
Wife: why are you cooking it in the pan? Why didn't you use the cooker? It's consuming so much time and gas.
Him: it tastes better if slow cooked on a pan instead of a cooker.
Wife: I don't think so. It will become too salty if cooked for such a long time.
He didn't reply. Turned off the gas and emptied the mutton vindaloo in the hot case from the pan and went to take rest in his room.
Wife: it's too thick. Add some water to it. It's too spicy.
He didn't reply but realised that she was tasting it.
Wife: why are you sleeping? How can anyone waste your time sleeping at daytime? Anyways, are you listening to what I said? Add some water to it.
Him: Vindaloo isn't some watery mutton curry. It's like this only. Thick, spicy.
Wife: I also know a little bit about cooking. I am telling it for your good. You will only like eating if you add water to it. And I am sure it is over salty.
He got up and took out two pieces in a bowl and handed her to taste to let her know that the salt was fine.
As soon as he turned around, she shouted, " I told you so. it's too thick and spicy. Had you listened to me and added some water. Add now also. After all what's the use of cooking if the people you are making it for doesn't like it. Such a wastage of time and gas. "
He didn't respond. He avoided any type of fight on a Sunday.
After sometime, he went to the kitchen , turned on the burner and placed the pan above it. Emptied the entire mutton vindaloo from the hot case into the pan. Took the water jug and poured 3/4th water from it into the pan. Let it boil while he went to the other room. After about 2-3 minutes, he returned to the kitchen, put off the burner and emptied the pan into the hot case again. Closed the hot case and put it in the dining table.
At lunch, he took a handful of mutton with rice and didn't speak a single word. He finished it fast, went to his room, locked the door and went to sleep.
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