Making Gobi Parathas With Grandpa

My daughter learns to make gobi-wala parathas (a cauliflower-stuffed fried Punjabi bread) with her grandfather, a very traditional Punjabi male who, for most of his life, stayed out of the kitchen except to eat. His wife's massive stroke in 1998 necessitated a revision of traditional roles and, as primary caregiver for his wife, my now 70-year old father-in-law became surprisingly domestically oriented, perfecting the art of cooking like a Punjabi housewife under the fierce tutelage of my mother-in-law, until her death last year. Below, Grandpa makes gobi-wala parathas for our family brunch, as his wife did for the family most Sundays of my wife's childhood. True to tradition, those who eat the delicious parathas accompanied by yogurt and pickled mango/lemon achar soon find themselves snoozing the afternoon away.