The why and what.
When I was younger, my mom would ask me to help out in her kitchen - simple things like cutting vegetables, stirring in the sugar into the payasam, watching over the burfi as it transforms into beautiful white edible goo and tasting the finished meal to check for salt and spice. This was my introduction to cooking - being the assistant chef. Neither dad or mom cook by the book, which means not two meals taste alike. :|
Since I've moved out of my house, I've been trying to cook a decent meal for myself and have managed to master a few recipes. This blog however, is not about those few recipes that I can cook. All Tamil Iyers have a cooking bible - Meenakshi Ammal's Samaithu Paar (Cook and See). I'm going to try to cook every single 'item' from that book. This blog therefore will work in two ways : 1. Catalog my success/failure in reproducing each recipe (especially since I can't read Tamil very well and the book at home is in Tamil :|)
2. Work as an English translation.
Hope like Julie in Julie and Julia, I can master every single recipe with finesse and finger licking results.
When I was younger, my mom would ask me to help out in her kitchen - simple things like cutting vegetables, stirring in the sugar into the payasam, watching over the burfi as it transforms into beautiful white edible goo and tasting the finished meal to check for salt and spice. This was my introduction to cooking - being the assistant chef. Neither dad or mom cook by the book, which means not two meals taste alike. :|
Since I've moved out of my house, I've been trying to cook a decent meal for myself and have managed to master a few recipes. This blog however, is not about those few recipes that I can cook. All Tamil Iyers have a cooking bible - Meenakshi Ammal's Samaithu Paar (Cook and See). I'm going to try to cook every single 'item' from that book. This blog therefore will work in two ways : 1. Catalog my success/failure in reproducing each recipe (especially since I can't read Tamil very well and the book at home is in Tamil :|)
2. Work as an English translation.
Hope like Julie in Julie and Julia, I can master every single recipe with finesse and finger licking results.
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