My cooking spree

I was tired of my own cooking routine and I wanted to break away from the usual roti-sabji, dal-rice stuff. As I am a strict vegetarian, I do not have many options to eat outside and I was tired of whatever options are available e.g.  Bread, pasta, salads etc. I wanted to eat something which was definitely vegetarian, but not from the routine. In Bangalore, I had a cook and she took care of the food there. But here, in Germany, every afternoon, the question ‘What’s cooking for dinner’ stares at my blank face. I then took to searching food blogs and I was amazed to see 'n' number of people writing blogs about their experiments with food and they had won a lot of accolades too. And I was even more surprised to see that many of the food blogs that I came across were for vegetarian stuff only! I read and referred a few blogs for a few dishes and prepared them in past 2-3 weeks. Tanay and Atul were my subjects for experiments, but they survived and me too!

I prepared apple-cinnamon muffins, mango muffins, sprouted moong paratha, onion-cheese paratha, corn –potato tikki, sabudana thalipeeth, semolina-coconut ladoo and I feel very proud of myself. I am not a person who enjoyed being in the kitchen and cooking for people. I could just do the bare minimum so as to not go hungry. But with these experiments, I gained confidence that even I can try different and unusual and healthy dishes. With practice, I can also master the different combinations and permutations. I felt elated and happy and I sincerely thank all those ladies who toiled to make their blogs and guide duds like me in this wonderful world of aroma and spices.

So, people like me, who would like to experiment and try some ‘out of the box’ recipes do refer the following links:

http://www.foodlyrics.com/

http://chakali.blogspot.in/

http://www.spicy-aroma.com/

http://www.spiceupthecurry.com/

http://www.aayisrecipes.com/

http://holycowvegan.net/

http://www.rakskitchen.net/