About my kitchen

Hi there !

Welcome to my kitchen !

I hope you enjoy browsing through  my cookbook. Please do leave behind your comments. I would love to  hear... um.. err.. read (lol!)  from you.

I am just the cook next door as anyone else. And here I have an online cooking blog as thousands of others out there. But I still consider my cookbook is unique in that it basically consists of a blend of Oriya(from a state named Orissa in East India) and Andhra(from a state named Andhra Pradesh in South India) cuisine. I belong to a small community of people who are originally from places on the Andhra-Orissa border. Some refer to this community as Sishti-Karnalu and some prefer to call them Telugu-Patnaik. Our customs and traditions are a happy amalgamation of those prevalent on both sides of the border. Quite naturally, people adopt and adapt to customs depending on where they live. Probably, thats how I am as happy with a dalma and santula as I am with a sambar or rasam and  a spicy hot curry. 

Having said that, I have been lucky (because of our occupations) to have had the opportunity to taste all kinds of cuisines from all over the world. So, I do experiment once in a while with my husband as my guinea pig. The experimental results range from absolute disasters to okie-okie to fantastic. I add the fantastic ones to this cookbook.

Now, here we are with a collection of the everyday recipes that is cooked in any kitchen passed through generations but done my way. It is my belief that every recipe turns out in a special way that is unique to your magic hands. So even if the ingredients are the same in two dishes, it would taste different when made by two different people. This is also a collection of all those experiments referred from other blogs(I have been and want to stay honest to all the borrowed recipes) that became an instant hit in my kitchen. This is a collection of some recipes that I think are my own inventions !!

I would be glad if my blog helps brings in a new taste into your kitchen. I hope this cookbook will be something that I can pass on to my son and daugter some 20-30 years later. I am excited about starting this blog and hope I can keep the momentum going on forever...

Sooo... Keep reading ! Keep cooking ! Keep blogging ! Keep smiling ! 

Yours truly