There are so many recipe books and web sites that are all about food. Why did I choose to blog about food? Many reasons - the most important one for me is that I love food. I love to cook it, to read about it, to eat it myself and to feed people. I don't limit myself to just one type of food though of course you will find a lot of Indian dishes in here - I am Indian after all. But having lived in many parts of the world, my family was exposed to many many different types of cuisines - and we embraced them all with enthusiasm. I tweaked some recipes to suit my family's taste - some I followed to a 'T'. Some times I combined 2 recipes and came up with an entirely different dish. No one has died yet!
The recipes on my blog are predominantly Indian. Indian cuisine is a vast ocean. There isn't just one type of food - or one kind of food- there are so many different kinds of cuisines in India- it's difficult - no- impossible to enumerate all of them here.
To the typical American palate, Indian food is a sweetish - mildly spicy orange sauce with pieces of chicken that's called chicken curry or a violent red coloured piece of chicken that passes off as tandoori. No- that's not Indian food at all...no surprise that you will rarely find Indians eating at these so called Indian restaurants that serve up these kinds of dishes.
Indian food is flavourful and fun. And no, not all of it is spicy. Indian dishes do use a lot of spices in them - but each spice brings its own special note to the final dish...it's not just about the heat.
The other misconception is - well- all Indian food is not "curry". but more about this later- it's going to take more than a few lines in my first post to talk about curry.
Having lived in Mumbai,Saudi Arabia, Canada and California - lots of other cuisines influenced my cooking. I made some really good friends - especially in California - who opened up their kitchen to me and taught me something beautiful. I hope I have done justice to their teachings.
You will find recipes here for Indian food of course - but also my versions of American food, Italian food or even Arabic food. It's a slow process getting all my recipes together - and trying to remember to take pictures and post them, but we will get there. I have not put a single recipe on here that I have not made in my own kitchen.
So this is how I begin- taking you on a journey - through this hopefully delicious path - that goes through my kitchen, the heart of my home - to your stomach and hopefully to your heart.
I hope to introduce you to different and new tastes and maybe encourage you to try something in your own kitchen.
The recipes on my blog are predominantly Indian. Indian cuisine is a vast ocean. There isn't just one type of food - or one kind of food- there are so many different kinds of cuisines in India- it's difficult - no- impossible to enumerate all of them here.
To the typical American palate, Indian food is a sweetish - mildly spicy orange sauce with pieces of chicken that's called chicken curry or a violent red coloured piece of chicken that passes off as tandoori. No- that's not Indian food at all...no surprise that you will rarely find Indians eating at these so called Indian restaurants that serve up these kinds of dishes.
Indian food is flavourful and fun. And no, not all of it is spicy. Indian dishes do use a lot of spices in them - but each spice brings its own special note to the final dish...it's not just about the heat.
The other misconception is - well- all Indian food is not "curry". but more about this later- it's going to take more than a few lines in my first post to talk about curry.
Having lived in Mumbai,Saudi Arabia, Canada and California - lots of other cuisines influenced my cooking. I made some really good friends - especially in California - who opened up their kitchen to me and taught me something beautiful. I hope I have done justice to their teachings.
You will find recipes here for Indian food of course - but also my versions of American food, Italian food or even Arabic food. It's a slow process getting all my recipes together - and trying to remember to take pictures and post them, but we will get there. I have not put a single recipe on here that I have not made in my own kitchen.
So this is how I begin- taking you on a journey - through this hopefully delicious path - that goes through my kitchen, the heart of my home - to your stomach and hopefully to your heart.
I hope to introduce you to different and new tastes and maybe encourage you to try something in your own kitchen.
