Introduction to the Blog and its Author....

About the blog: This space is about food and cooking--regular home fare to exotic gourmet dishes and everything in between--baking, street, party, picnic, festival, soul, comfort... you name it, we have had it and tried making it.  In this blog I want  to share the adventures and experiments in my kitchen.
 I do not have any formal training in cooking, I have learnt how to cook mostly from my mother. This is my space to talk about the food I love, foods which cheer me up, memories associated with certain foods, traditions around food, new cuisines I try out, restaurants and cafes I eat in, people who motivate me to cook and much more.

Suchi@ kitchen karma

Suchi's Story: Always a foodie and interested in cooking, it is in the last two years that I found a lot of time to experiment in the kitchen. Like all wannabe cooks I started with accidents, some minor, some major. As days pass, I am glad to say the number and gravity of accidents are on a decline. My chief motivator, accomplice and tester is my husband. We spend many hours pottering about in the kitchen, long hours researching for the right recipes and browsing the internet and in markets for the right ingredients and utensils. My guru is my mother who have been guiding me through long phone conversations. Whenever there was/is a crisis, a call to my mother is a must, to both calm me down and save the situation! Two others deserve mention, my grandmother (didima) and my aunt (boro pishi) who throughout my growing up years and even now have been cooking up magic! One day I wish to become an effortless cook capable of rustling up gourmet meals in a moment's notice the way these ladies do. It is a tough act to follow, but they assure me not impossible.
I am a Bengali from India so I guess I know Indian food best. Being a ghoti/ Bengali from West Bengal the food I have grown up eating has a lot of sugar, very different from the hot food of the Bengalis from East Bengal. I will try and post as many ghoti recipes here as I can.
Am a keen supporter of organically and locally grown produce and the Fairtrade/ ethical trading movement! I try to use these ingredients in my cooking. Having grown up in pre-liberalized India, I was raised strictly on seasonal fruits and vegetables. As an adult living in the West, the food options open to me are numerous, but I am trying to find out about the seasonal produce and use these. I try to stay away from the processed, tinned and packed stuff as much as I can. 
Apart from being interested in cooking, I like painting. Recently I have started doing small craft projects for our home. I would like to share these also over here.
I also blog at Hold A Thought, Pen It Down.
Of course all this writing and posting on my part will not make much sense if you do not read it. I welcome you to my blogs and would love to hear from you, dear readers. Comments, ideas, views, questions are eagerly awaited.


You can reach me at suchismita.majumdar[at]gmail[dot]com.


Your,
Affectionately and sincerely,
Suchi


P.S. The photos in this blog are mostly taken by me with my new DLSR camera. I am a novice photographer with not much talent or skill. Please bear with the amateurish photos.


The blog header is designed by my husband.