OMG !! Its my 100th post

 

I really cant believe I wrote, tried and tasted 100 recipes. Its been around 8 months since I started writing about my experiments in the kitchen and my combat with flavours. What started as a mere pastime has turned out to be a part of my daily routines, my daily thoughts and one among my daily goals.

A big THANKS to all my dear subscribers, to all my facebook page likers, to all those who liked and commented on my recipes. You guys were really the reason that kept me going on in this little journey of mine.

Let me show you a few of my disappointing initial days with cooking... (psst...Don't laugh. haha ! )



 One of my first try on baking... looks horrible ah!

sticky cupcakes

shapeless bread bondas

 

I really don't remember what this was !



My future goals

• I am working on more Video recipes. I ll try to publish them soon here. Psst.. there are 2 video recipes already in the blog.. Falafel and Prawns Roast.
• I ll try to post small write-ups on the shortcuts and cooking tips I learned in this little journey of mine.

Lend me a helping hand

• I would love if you would all send me the pictures of the dishes u made reading this blog as I would like to publish it here to mark it as an everlasting memory and a real inspiration for me to go on.
• I would love you to drop a query or a comment on the respective recipes published. I ll try to reply to every query to the best of my knowledge.

Keep Inspiring
Shabana.

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" Cooking is an in-born talent " Who said so?

Yes, I am not a trained chef nor a daughter of one.

I started serious cooking really after getting married. Before that i was just a 'mommy-food' girl. I completed my Masters in Business Administration...got married ...new home... college lecturer... mom-in law's food...i never really cooked all those years (ps: besides on occasions). I was mostly into dish-washing all those years.  

In 2013 ,we shifted to Saudi Arabia with my daughter, Ziana.. that's when the fun started. I started by cooking my usual family recipes. Arabic food was not a favourite at home in the beginning. We used to visit the local Indian restaurants (ps: very few in number) occasionally in this small town in Saudi Arabia where we lived . I always missed the street food (thattukada) of Kerala.

Feeling comfortable in the kitchen is essential to cook good food. In the little apartment where i live now I have set my own customized kitchen space. I slowly experimented ,improvised and developed my culinary skills here. I feel many people around us think that its too much of strain or nearly impossible to bring Restaurant dishes to your dining table made in your very own kitchen. I took up little challenges of cooking myself like recreating a particular restaurant dish at home or like the '31 new dishes a month' challenge.

  

I was a Picky eater!

Slowly I ended up cooking Italian, Arabic and so on. My husband was my personal taste tester, critic, guinea pig. He was the ' Variety kid '.He order's the most diverse food in restaurants. Somehow he finds it out in the Menu. I started to like different cuisines .I loved the food I made. I am no more a Picky eater.

How I started this blog

During my cooking expeditions all these years I have gone through a lot of blogs, YouTube, personal advice and I wrote my recipes in a notebook. We started taking pictures and posting on Whatsapp. Some applauded and some started asking for recipes. On the last day of my "31 day cooking challenge" I thought why not I try writing a blog .All recipes here are tried and tested at home and husband approved!

So here goes the beginning of my scripture..   

Dr. Shabana.

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