Hi folk!!I am Padmajha Suresh[PJ,for short].I am a Dietitian / Health educator[now on a break] ,shuttling between India and China with my loving hubby and a little angel .
The reason for me starting this blog is plenty and here is how I startes experimenting in the kitchen
As a kid I used to watch my mom in the kitchen [in amazement], the ease with which she would turn the place to a magic land filled with wonderful aromas and colorful platters. Drawing inspiration from her, I too started cooking and turned our kitchen into a laboratory. The ‘guinea pig’ was my dad!! He used to taste my experiments ‘bravely’ and give his comments/compliments. Battling the various disasters I managed to prepare something fit enough to eat.
My experiments in the kitchen continued with help from mom.I learnt several recipes from her .In college, when my friends were busy taking down notes in the library, I would be drooling over a colorful cookbook for sure!! I used to write down each recipe I liked/thought will be great if cooked…Any time I meet my friends or relatives the first question I always ask them is ‘Do you have any new recipe or cookbook?’ And so my collection grew.
My interest for cooking and trying out new recipes kept increasing and now my experiments are tasted [or should I say- ‘tested’] by my dear hubby.
What more, any food however mundane, reminds me of an incident. There are numerous such instances where I look upon certain dishes as ‘comfort foods’ and avoid certain foods altogether to escape stirring up those bitter moments of life.. And..of course there are bitter sweet dishes.. Err..I mean memories as well. Each time I gear up to prepare a dish, my mind fills up with nostalgia and I re-live those moments.
This blog is becoming a means for sharing my family recipes and those that I collected from friends and other places and also a dossier where my lil-one can look-up to when she starts her experiments in this lovely field .
Collecting recipes, crockery and cutlery interest me greatly and I have a wide collection to flaunt. My other passions include performing/listening to music[I am a music [veena]graduate as well], reading books on a wide range of topics, Philately [Inherited the interest from my dad],watching old[B&W] movies and my latest one is blogging.
Continue your expedition to the magical world of cookery with me…Happy cooking!!!!
