Lessons...with a pinch of salt!

Was home alone last Sunday and generally prefer to do some cooking when alone. Rice, daal and Potato fry seemed to be a perfect menu for dinner.

The dinner was ready in no time. Though I had put in all efforts to make the best, I couldn’t match my Mom’s cooking. After all, maa k haath ka khane ka koi jawab nahi hota.

The first bite and I realised something was missing.  A typical issue with salt is it has to be in perfect quantity. Salt is typical – it has to be in perfect quantity. The absence of salt makes the food tasteless and so does excess of it. I had not added salt – either to daal or to potato fry.

Got some salt from kitchen and added it to Potato fry straightaway. The next bite was still tasteless. The salt was still missing. When I tasted the daal, then I realised that salt was missing in daal and not in the fry. I had blindly added salt to potatoes without even checking what lacked salt. The potatoes were more salty than required and the dinner ended up being not so tasty.

Sometime after dinner I had a thought,

How often do we end up trying to solve issues which are not the actual problems and turn a blind eye to the real problems?

Just a thought to ponder…..... :)