I've been thinking a lot lately about what foods feel like a warm hug for me. And while there's a list of foods that I enjoy eating (I'll never say no to a spam musubi or a warm bowl of chana masala), there's only one meal that evokes that special feeling for me: my mother's homemade lamb biryani. There's something about the way she cooks her biryani that makes it superior to any restaurant-made biryani I've ever eaten. Call it her secret sauce. Maybe it's the specific spices she uses? Or, maybe it's the specific cut of lamb she uses? I'd like to think that it's the love she pours into the meal that makes it taste all the more better.
That's the greatest joy of enjoying your mom's home cooking. Not only is it a sensory experience, it's an emotional one too, whether it makes you incredibly nostalgic or cry tears of joy. But being able to enjoy your mother's home-cooked foods may not be a regular possibility, be it distance or loss. However, it's certainly not impossible, courtesy of Shef, a chef-to-consumer online marketplace that brings home cooked meals straight to their customers' doorsteps.
