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' I can(t) cook' or, 'The making of a Gobhi Paratha'

It was a week since my wedding, My husband had asked me to prepare dinner for the family. It would be the first time I was cooking for my new family. Eager to impress, I racked my brain for a dish that would be special but at the same time something that I had some experience in making. "Okay, I'll make gobhi paratha" I decided. I had made it once or twice before under the supervison of my elder sister and had a pretty good idea of how it was made.... And now starts the very worst adventure  of my journey through the culinary world I gathered flour, cauliflower, chillies, Ginger, salt oil....chopped the veggies, salted them, set them aside and mixed the dough. Rolled it out and tried to stuff the veg mixture in the rolled out dough. The mixture just kept seeping out and the dough kept falling apart. I kept adding flour but the whole thing kept getting very soggy. I kept on adding flour in desperate hope of salvaging the wreck. A small sandpit of flour was forming around m