Counter Madness!!

Is it just me or are there other people out there who love shopping for kitchen and dining products? I know a lot of people who love shopping for clothes. But how about for their kitchen? Each time I walk into a utensils store the gloss on the plates, the shine on the spoons, the curve on the bowl just amaze me. I just feel like buying them all. Sometimes I even daydream of owning a store myself so that I can keep looking at them. Anytime I go to Shoppers Stop or Lifestyle, I just directly walk into the home and kitchen section just to look at them. My poor husband too walks with me from counter to counter. I’m sure he still wonders why I do that. I’d love to answer him if I knew the answer. But alas!!

Ajay (my husband) keeps telling me, buy this buy that; but what he doesn’t know is it’s not about buying them. After walking around for one whole hour, I end up buying one coffee mug or two glasses. It’s probably the lights that fall directly on them, that make each glass look so angelic. A simple ‘Treo’ wine goblet appears like ‘The Holy Grail’ to me. Ajay notices the shine in my eyes when I look at each of it and ends up loading our cart with each of the item that made my eyes stay open. But little does he know, it’s not about loading the cart, but admiring it on the counter. Of course how would he understand when I point on a simple whisk and say, ‘oh…look look, a whisk!!!’ and as I we get closer I start screaming out of excitement and say, ‘ oh look, the even have it in every color!!!’ But I guess, he’d understand me because as each time we pass though the electronics section, he yells with a thrilling voice, ‘oh look, a USB cable!’.

Genesis

I’ve been cooking for 6 years now. I’ve made a journey from not knowing how much salt to add to bringing a smile on my husband’s face each time he eats what I cook. Well nothing could be more flattering! One thing that’s common between my husband and I is we LOVE food!! Nothing can be more comforting than having appetizing food in your mouth. I believe if you want to be a good cook, you ought to love eating good food. It’s very important to know how good something can taste because; only then can you follow or replicate a recipe. You will know how exactly your food should taste once it’s done.

My expedition with food began six years ago when I got married. I knew nothing at all. I remember standing next to my mother-in-law in the kitchen and passing salt and chili powder as she cooked. I just watched her for weeks and the eventually started my own experiments with food. I did watch my mom cook too when I was younger but never tried cooking. By the time my interest grew towards cooking, my mom was no more. But the memories of her cooking are still fresh. The aroma of the tempering she made and the sizzling sound it made when she poured it over the curry still lingers in my mind.

My mother’s a South Indian, a Mangalorean and my mother-in-law is a North Indian, a Punjabi and guess who gets the best of both worlds? Of course me! The added advantage is we live in Gujarat. So I’ve been eating a lot of khaman dhokla as well though not cooked much. Also having eating in various restaurants with my husband I’ve also developed interest in other cuisines. So join me and my adventures of cooking here on my blog – Saffron Chronicles.