After a long tiring day, when we get back home late, we just want to have a nice sumptuous dinner and sleep with a smile. But with the changing speed of life and the concept of nuclear family, it is not possible every day, at least for a person from a middle class family. So we all cook. Some cook anything just to fill stomach and get their required energy and some cook by taking time and to pamper their taste buds. They say eating is a necessity and cooking is an art. And I totally believe it.

One think I love is cooking. I am not a fancy cook because I believe that good food doesn’t meant fancy and complicated. It can be any recipe by my Hajuraama but cooked in the right way. Last week over a cup of coffee, I had a bit of discuss with a friend who is a culinary expert. His argument was that with training and books one can master the subject of cooking. On the contrary, I was debating that cooking is not just right amount of ingredients and the process of making but the kind of feeling you have while cooking. Our Hajuraama and her hajuraama  were not trained cooks but I think they had the best of recipes one can get in any school of culinary arts.

I strongly believe that the kind of persona you carry and the spiritual vibration you are at will always affect the work you are doing. That also comes affective in your cooking style. My experience in life, I feel that every time I am in a good mood or I feel strongly in love with the person I am cooking for ( not necessary my bf or the guy I am dating but my family and close friends as well), I have surprised myself with the results.

Whatever you cook, when you cook with dedication and a lot of love and affection, I think it just perfects the ingredients somehow.  I agree that the cookery books will definitely give us the right amount of salt and oregano for a saucy salsa but it is the love we put in that, that really brings out the taste. That is why when your mom cooks for you when you get back home from a long trip, it tastes soooo good, when your better half cooks a nice dinner to make u feel special, it always works with your buds, that is why kanchi maili jethi ko bhatti has such good flavor that pulls you back to that place again and again.

So next time when you cook, you stay happy, sing a song and feel the emotion of love, so that you add those secret ingredients to the food you cook and serve. Jacques Pepin, a well known French Chef, who is also an author and a tv personality quoted that “Cooking is truly an Art of Love”. Yes it surely is!