My Video Posts & Recipes

 

When I started cooking, in 2005, I was so nervous, I used to just take recipes from the internet and friends, and keep trying them, but after a while I stopped doing that, I realised that a recipe may or may not be suited to your palette, so instead, what I do now is, whenever I eat something that someone I know has made, if I like it then I ask them for it's recipe, and try that, I may or may not improvise it, depending on the outcome, then that recipe becomes my own. I do take recipes from the internet or books also, I mainly rely on images for this, if it looks appetising, I go through the recipe, and I know this may work for me, then I try it, and if it clicks with my taste I keep it, it becomes mine :) 

 

Cooking is not rocket science, but there is one thing, the more confident you are about a dish, the better you can make it, so in order to gain that confidence, make it till you get it right, feel happy not stressed about making it. Be organised, start by reading the recipe fully, sometimes even though recipes have the ingredients chalked out in the start, people may forget to add a thing or two, after reading, collect all the ingredients and tools you will need to cook in one place, so that once you start cooking, everything moves smoothly from start to end. Chop you veges, spoon your spices according to mentioned quantities, just keep everything ready, just like they do in food shows. Be relaxed when you cook, cooking is fun, enjoy it. And after you are done, make sure to clean up after you. No one likes a chef who leaves the kitchen messed up. What I do when I chop veges is, I collect all the unwanted peels and such things in a bowl, or plastic bag, and trash it when im done. 

 

Also you don't have to follow a recipe to the T, unless you are baking. If the recipe tells you to add 2 garlic cloves, but you love garlic, and want that extra punch in your meal, go ahead and add 2 more. #MakeItYourOwn. 

 

​Happy cooking :)