Grandma’s recipes : A pinch of love I Tasshvi, 13, Kolkata

Grandma’s recipes : A pinch of love 

This has always puzzled me; just how much is a pinch?

Being in a kitchen with my grandma is surely no cinch

A “snap” of this, a “dab” of that, a “lump” of something else…

then “beat it for a little while”, or, “stir until it melts.”

I have to be a wizard to decipher what she meant

by all these strange proportions of her I wish I was not there present.

How much nutmeg is in the doughnuts? Grandma wouldn’t flinch

as she said, with twinkling eyes, “Oh, just about a pinch.”

There must have been in her wise head a measuring device

That told her just how much sugar, salt, and spice.

I wish I was as good as her in cooking as well as math.

But all I now, that we are great together along with having different paths.

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