ABOUT ME

I love food. I love writing. And neither of these is my profession. My name is La (I will go by the short version here because people from my state in India are notorious for long names!) and I live in Hyderabad, India. I am engineer with a gold medal from my university and never took up an engineering job. That’s because I went on to pursue an MBA from one of India’s premier educational institutes. I then became a SAP consultant and my brief career with IBM took me to countries on opposite ends of the globe. I got married and chose to give the career a break.

So now I have free time and a large kitchen. Food experiments are the result! And I love food. Did I say that already? I also like to read a lot and of late, the usual mystery fiction books got replaced by online food blogs. There are quite a lot of them online and at this time I really don’t know if I can make mine stand out. At first I wasn’t even sure why I was writing and so it took me nine posts before I had the courage to put up an ‘About me’ page.

I know now why I was willing to start this blog. I have always been keen on telling others what I already know. During college days, my class notes were the most photo copied pages before semester exams and I was always happy to explain to friends anything I knew. Now that I found out how easy it is to bake and cook, I have to tell as many people as I can. That recipes are not gospel, that you don’t have to follow them absolutely to get good results, that recipes are just guidelines and everyone can be a great cook. Till date, I have never followed a recipe in its entirety as there always are missing ingredients. But most of the times missing  ingredients won’t make that much of a difference. Like vanilla essence in a chocolate cake or even orange zest for an orange cake. It will still make a great cake – better than a store bought one. So, go ahead, try out a recipe even when you don’t have some of the ingredients or equipment suggested. Use replacements and more often than not, you will surprise yourself pleasantly.

Most of the recipes i post here will serve two people. Some are creations in our home kitchen put together whimsically by the husband and me. And when they are adapted or inspired from somewhere else i will provide the source credit.

All the pictures on this blog are clicked by me. The pictures and text content cannot be used elsewhere without prior written permission from me. Please ask first.

Thank you for visiting and hope to see you again soon. Bon Appetit!

15 comments:

  1. great work La!! keep going
    Cheers
    Anjali

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  2. Thank you so much Anjali. So glad you were able to browse through my blog today. Do let me know when you try out any of my recipes too.

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  3. Thnks La, it was lovely meeting u!!
    keep up the good work and keep inspiring many more people like us with ur delightfull recipes!

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  4. i have had that lemon rice....i hope its still the same great taste :))

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  5. You have a large kitchen? How I envy you! Came over from the comment you left on my blog. :)

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  6. Oh yes, a beautiful, large, almost fully equipped kitchen. One day, when i clean it up sufficiently, maybe i will put up a pic here :-)

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  7. Okay I am hooked. At least I agree with your statement: 'telling others what I already know' - reading Fountain Head was the result, which by the way I have probably read 5 - 6 times over again till now (apart from John Grisham... :-) ). Is there some kind of RSS feeds or someway of getting an update automatically. Superb stuff for sure, actually wouldn't have expected anything less from you anyways.

    PS: Unable to post as me.

    Max

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  8. Thanks M. Not sure why, but other friends too have said they were not able to post as themselves and had to post anonymous. Will take a look. You can subscribe for RSS for new posts, there's a link on the right side of the blog.

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  9. Hi La! thankyou for your lovely comment, it made my day! i tried your eggless strawberry icecream (wanted to try before strawberries go out of season in India) & they were fantastic... :) About the comment discrepiency, apparently google is having some issue which they are trying to rectify... lets hope it gets sorted out soon :)

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    1. Thanks Deepthi. And happy to know you liked the ice cream.

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  10. Hi La, Thanx for the nice comment on my space dear.. Its great to know more about you here, and such a nice write up.. quite an insight about you. I do not have to say it again, but yes I love what you have done here. And I am a happy follower..! :)

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    1. Thank you Anzz for the kind words. Appreciate it.

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  11. Hey La, I loved reading your About Me...its fun and spontaneous, just the way I like it :-)

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  12. Hey sweets,
    I have a blog award waiting for you to claim on my blog. check it out.

    much love,
    anita

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  13. Hey La
    Just wanted to tell ya that first recipe I tried was the Strawberry Icecream (simply because it needs little effort). It was just fab and I sneakily wolfed down most of it before sharing it with the husband :) On popular demand, I had to remake it until strawberries went out of season.

    I am not a fan of cooking, but love good food. Its getting difficult to go to restaurants and I am more than tempted to try the delicious assortment.
    I love the writing style and the pictures. Awesome clicks and presentation. Please do keep posting some recipes for lazy folks like myself. Good luck with the blog. I as usual, join your fan following :-*
    Love
    PP

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