Fish Chops : No Generation gap there!!

Today, I was watching a movie called City slickers...a comedy celebrating mid life crisis. 

Ha ha!

[No need to calculate, I am not there yet!!;-)]

Even though a comedy by definition...(Billy Crystal takes care of that!!), yet it left a very content (something 'more than laughter') feeling at the end. Within a few minutes into the movie, I realized that I have watched the movie before. Continued watching it because I remembered it was a funny one. It was funny then and it was funny today. But yes, today the focus of the fun was different. 
(I could relate to so many other things in the movie.....no no....still not there yet!!)

Today the focus was not only on the pure nonsense laughter (which we also need) but on the laughter which can make your eyes shine at the end.

A small message lingered on.......

"There is this ONE thing in life which is the most important and it is upto YOU to figure out WHAT!"

....resonated with my thoughts today.

[Extra information: today the weather is dark, gloomy and rainy. Researchers have found out that the weather can have a significant effect on human emotions...so the credit of the above banter goes to ....

No, I am not there yet!!] ha ha!

The boy (ok, double digits now but still far away from the teens) has recently learnt "sarcasm".  
The eyes have started rolling, the shoulders shrug themselves atleast five times in one sentence, facial expression can oscillate between funny and sarcastic very easily, hands go up in air as a sign of 'Oh no, not again!' and the words chosen to reply back can be significantly sarcastic!

Mama listens, gets furious, scolds.
'khali mukhe mukhe kotha, amra mayer mukher opor konodin kotha bolini!!' 
[You are replying back, we never spoke back to our moms like this!!]

But when the mercury drops to a normal level, Mama rethinks. Some dialogues do bring a smile to her lips.  Only some!

Generation gap was always there.However, nowadays it has doubled its impact by also bringing in a technology gap with it. Whatever WE say, THEY are always a step ahead. 

You do Facebook? Ewww.....that is so "last generation"!

You do Whatsapp? OMG ....That is so "what parents do"!
E-mails??  "Seriously"? How can you spend so much time 'typing'?
This generation is in such a hurry that they have replaced 'would' with 'wud' , thereby saving time to type TWO FULL ALPHABETS!! I have no clue what they are using this extra time for......
;-)

Amazing what parents of today need to do to keep everything in balance. 

We did not have a TV at home till I was sixteen. Correct, sixteen years old! 

When the TV finally came, somehow my mom felt that I should be banned from watching Chitrahaar .

(Wikipedia: Chitrahaar is a Bollywood songs television program on DD National, most widely watched in the 1970s.The word literally means 'a garland of pictures')

Of course not all mothers thought the same. So next morning at the school bus stand, I was the poor soul with no knowledge of Chitraahar, while my lucky priviledged friends who were allowed to watch chattered away in glory. I don't think my mom needed to worry about anything called 'peer pressure'. All my mom needed to do in order to implement the ban was only make her eyes REAL BIG and say " AMI bollam to dekhar dorkar nei, byas! [I told you not to watch, thats it]"

THAT dialogue is so "last generation" dialogue now.....

;-)

[At the dinner table last night having khichuri ]

A-junior:  Is the khichuri recipe in your book? It tastes really nice.

Me (obviously very happy after hearing this):  Yes, I think it is.

(Now taking it a step further..)

Why do you ask?  Will you make it later from my book? for your family when you grow up?

A-junior: No! we dont have to MAKE it. I will take a picture and just print it....3D.

Forget everything I said before....let us enjoy "Macher chop" which has not been affected by the generation gap...my father loves it, I love it, my son loves it too.

Fish chop

The first fish chop I can still remember (because of its heavenly taste) is one that was made by mashi , my friend Putku's mother, in Durgapur.  I can still 'taste' it! 

Ingredients:

2 cans of Tuna

2 chopped onions

3 boiled potatoes
1 tbsp rice flour

1 tbsp ginger mince (I like to use minced ginger and not paste)

1 tsp chopped green chilis

chopped coriander

1 tsp of cumin powder
Salt

Oil to fry

Ready steady cook:

• Mash the potatoes and the fish from the can.(drain the fish before if it is in water or oil)
• Mix in all the spices mentioned above.
• Heat 1 tbsp oil in a nonstick pan. Add the chopped onions and fry them till they change to light brown colour.
• Add the fried onions to the mashed potato mix. Add the chopped coriander, minced ginger, chilis, rice powder, cumin powder and salt. Mix well.


Now prepare the coating.
1. Some plain white flour
2. One egg beaten
3. Bread crumbs. 

• Take one round ball of the potato-fish mixture and flatten it in your palm.
• Gently press between your palm to make it into a flat oval shape. 
• Roll it in the flour, dip it in the egg and then roll it in the bread crumbs.
• Repeat for all pieces and once done keep it in the refrigerator for an hour or so.
• Deep fry them and serve with mustard sauce (or the Bengali Kasundi) and sliced onions.