I did another consultancy project today. Got a call last Friday night just when I was crazy busy for my Saturday wedding. Rotti with Curry they requested. Wednesday 2pm, recipes, tasting samples and demo! I thought, hey, I got Monday and Tuesday, so yes it is! For some reason, they changed it to Tuesday…. Eeeek! Rush again!! Good thing rotti has been an obsession of mine a few years back. My first taste of this flakey Indian bread was in Singapore! I loved this bread the moment I had it! Practice, practice, practice. Finally, I got my recipe from one of my chef instructors in culinary school. He worked in Malaysia for a while and got to travel around the region. I remembered I had to learn it “FAST” since that was for a television segment, and of course, since those were orders from the Chef ! -- “Elaine, this is how you do it (while showing the motion) flip it really thin. Get it? Now give me 10 of those!” Obligingly, I said “Yes Chef!” Not really knowing if I could indeed throw that dough in the air with out embarrassing myself. The first few tries were full of holes! Hahahahhaha I quickly folded it to hide the imperfections (eeeek). I was getting quite better from 4 to 10 though. It was fun! I was happy I learned it.
Teaching it this time gave me a different high. The owner of the Asian Café I was doing consultancy for was really happy. She said she had been trying to do it and ended up with a biscuit-like pastry. I served it with different kinds of curry dishes. Beef, Chicken, Seafood and Fish. The Business Unit Managers of the company I’m working for were pleased, the resto owner was really happy.
Over tasting, the mood dwindled a bit with the conversation of the tragedy that happened in Glorrieta. They had a branch there, quite near the area where it happened. Good thing no one from her staff got hurt. One of her staff shared that it was really bad, they heard 3 explosions, the first one was quite weak, some did not mind it, the 2nd explosion was the big one, it caused the destruction. The 3rd one made it even worse. There are rumors going around that it was mismanagement of the electrical circuits. No one really knows what the cause is. Its quite scary sometimes to think that to be at the wrong place at the wrong time can totally change someone’s life just like that. Sometimes I just wonder why things like these happen.
