Bliss

Dear Satchitananda Madam,
Sorry for second intervention.Your raw jackfruit curry dragged me to 1950 when I was 8 years old.My father was a famous teacher in those days. He had many students from 'Nagaraththaar community( naattukkottai Chettiyars)We attended a wedding in Chettinadu. The bridegroom's relatives took us by car from .I had a jolly car trip. We had a nice breakfast with kesari, idli etc.There was lunch at 12.30., a grand feast on banana leaf.I could not even reach the other side of the leaf.

All the visitors ,without exception were talking about one item-raw jack fruit curry( unripe jack ) there was great demand for the curry from the visitors.They requested the chef to prepare the same item for the dinner too.
The chief cook was known to my father, being his student.
While coming out the chief cook prostrated before my father seeking his blessings. My father blessed him, lauded him for all the preparations, especially, the jackfruit curry.My father asked the chef" This is not jack season. How were you able to procure raw jack to make curry for 1000 people?
The chef took my father alone and whispered something in his ears.My father felt laughing aloud but controlled himself.On coming back home , my father narrated to my mother what the chef told. 'jack curry' was the preferred menu.Not even small pieces of jack were available in the market.'Somehow you have to prepare"was the command from the rich wedding party. In his cooking experience he knew things of similar taste.The nearest taste was that of 'kadalai punnaakku'( oil cake out of ground nuts, the waste after extracting ground nut oil,) which was soaked in water and given to cows as the main food that will enrich lactation.
Now the wise cook procured ground nut oil cake heaped outside oil mill, powdered it nicely, soaked in water for specified period,cooked in high flame, added necessary ingredients as cooked dhal, dhaniya, chilies etc, seasoned generously with mustard, added dessicated coconut and served.It was relished by one and all. As promised my father didn't reveal to anyone.

My mother tried to make curry out of 'Ground nut oil cake( kadalai punnaakku) available in plenty at home as we had seven cows.It was horrible and nobody touched.Amma left the idea.
For those with skills, even a piece of grass would become a powerful instrument.

Satchitananda madam,next time ,you may think of oil cake when you take raw jack fruit curry and I doubt whether you will feel the same bliss.To attain the bliss, you have to place yourself in the place of a desi cow!
jayasala 42

 

OMG that is super curry with super idea out of punnakku. I enjoyed reading this wonderful inform for dissemination among ......
Thanks and Regards.
God too loves unadulterated devotion to curry favour.!!

 

For worldly issues like taxation even God has no answers, may be because there is no such system of collecting revenues up there. Here there are many distractions to disturb in meditation.

 

Agreed.
But God Himself depicted in some temples meditating and if that is the case then the question arises what he would do with such bliss?!
Thanks & regards.
God meditate with two eyes at same level but invisible third eye is watching over us/ (u.s.) humanity.

 

What a blissful state @satchitananda . Very humorous. Enjoyed it much.
Foodie that I am, there is no dearth of "blissful" moments .
Last week it was a cup of avial on Monday, rasam on Tuesday, tomato rice on Wednesday, banana stem pachadi on Thursday...
But these moments are always broken by a telephone call, or the microvawe saying food's done, or the dryer saying its time to fold the clothes.