Healthy Cooking

After cooking for so many years I realize how important it is to be nutrition aware while cooking. Food in a family can achieve so many objectives the primary one of course is the appeasement of hunger. I have always been very nutritions conscious while cooking and serving to my family. But I just love food and hence tend to binge. Cooking and serving food in a happy atmosphere at home is such an easy way to bond with family members and friends.

My sons constantly warn me of dangers of gaining weight so all my cooking focuses on taste, low calories and nutrition. I am a pure vegetarian and south Indian . I just love the taste of our food.
Our food is light and with proper adaptations can be very nourishing too. Of course I am game to try all types of food ( except non_vegetarian stuffs )

My cooking is creative in the sense I do not follow rules. I just add whatever I feel like adding, any amount, going by a gut feeling about taste. Most important is to use all ingredients which are good for your health. Why waste time and money on unhealthy food? Sometimes things turn out so tasty, I admire myself. If I read somewhere something is good for health, surely I will try to use it in my cooking. You will find me using lots of Kadipatta ( Curry leaves) as I strongly believe it is so cheap and so good for health. Ditto Tomato.

We living in India are really blessed to get some of the things like ginger, garlic, tomatoes, almost all vegetables so cheap. (Forgive me TV channels who keep crying foul over rising prices and inflationa and all that) . A bunch of Kadipatta is just Rs. 2 and a Kg of tomato is Rs. 8

I consider myself a great cook ( and a great eater too) . Ya nobody stopped you from believing that about yourself. At the heart of the matter is the love you feel for yourself and the people whom you are going to be serving that food.

So here I shall be sharing my recipes with whoever cares to read and try out.