A very warm Hello! This is my very first blog post and I’m very excited (and hungry!)!
I absolutely adore, admire and love people who love to cook and make great food, and also also enjoy feeding ‘the always hungry for more’ humans. That, for me, has always been the best way anyone could show affection. A good meal makes me brim with joy. I can never forget a good meal and the person who has taken the effort to make the meal for me.
Some of the best memories of my childhood and adulthood have some great food featured in them. Be it the amazing Milk Bikis (biscuits) with a glass of milk in the morning, crispy banana chips during the morning break in nursery, cooling curd rice during hot summer vacation afternoons, sweet banana fritters with the best tea in the world, in the college canteen during graduation days, the amazing on-campus made paneer (cottage cheese) curry during post-grad days (well, they had their own herd of cows), the fluffy puris and the succulent chicken curry, najma aunty (our more than a neighbor, neighbour) surprised us hungry teenagers with, at the end of late evening gossip, amma’s crunchy biscuits for a mid-morning snack during study hols, ra’ cheriamma’s (my aunt’s) amazing chammanthi with dosas in the morning and the dense chocolate pyramid she gets for me each time I visit (even now!), and my amma’s light, crispy, out of the world dosas, which I crave for every single day and can have it for all three meals, and Srinivasan’s/ Srini mama’s (he has been with us for 30 years now!) best in the world sambar! (It is the bestest, so says anyone who has it), my sister’s delightful scrambled eggs, toast and fries breakfast, J’s fabulous tandoori chicken and fish to J’s amma’s amazing mango curry..what gastronomic delights the world has!
But, more than anything else, I can never forget the small balls of mashed up rice and curds with payar upperi (long green beans) that amma and ammuma used to feed my sister and me, when we were small. A meal even as simple as that satisfies your hunger and the love satisfies your soul. That is when I felt and still feel at home…
This is my little attempt at saying 'Thank you' to everyone who has made me a wonderful meal and given me an even warmer hug. I aspire to be like them in the kitchen; to be able to whip up a gorgeous meal and still have time share a cup of tea. I must confess, I am just about average in the kitchen, but like I said I dream to be more than excellent; I am one of those people who has to make a mistake and learn...so you can imagine the disasters in the kitchen. But as Julia Child would say (much to my relief!) '“...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.” This is my way of reaching my goal, to be able to give what I have, with much joy, received..
This is my little attempt at saying 'Thank you' to everyone who has made me a wonderful meal and given me an even warmer hug. I aspire to be like them in the kitchen; to be able to whip up a gorgeous meal and still have time share a cup of tea. I must confess, I am just about average in the kitchen, but like I said I dream to be more than excellent; I am one of those people who has to make a mistake and learn...so you can imagine the disasters in the kitchen. But as Julia Child would say (much to my relief!) '“...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.” This is my way of reaching my goal, to be able to give what I have, with much joy, received..
I love reading up and collecting recipes, and I thought why not put it up where my fellow enthusiasts and I can take a look at it anytime…and share the joy..
The amazingly talented bloggers of the blogging world have been such a big inspiration. A big thanks to Ria (Ria’s collection), Nags (EdibleGarden), Sarah (Vazhayila), Soma (Ecurry) and Divya (Divyas cookbook) just to name a few.
I am a stay-at-home mum to my 2.5 year old, and I live in Kerala, India.
I am a stay-at-home mum to my 2.5 year old, and I live in Kerala, India.
I hope you like the blog. Do drop a line and tell me what you think and I shall be delighted to reply.
