
The joy of creation is the purpose of art.The only creation which gives pleasure to all our senses is cooking.A person who knows to eat must know to cook,thats the basic knowledge needed to live.
I started my cooking venture pretty late,at the age of 16,i remember it was a new year day.I just decided to cook because i was bored eating the old stuff,nobody was around except a servant maid who was constantly giggling on seeing what i was doing.I had a discussion with a friend and came up with an innovative idea of adding potato chips to a gravy of odd vegetables.I had starting troubles,but i was able to mix many things and kindle,which is probably the most essential ability for a cook,that dish was a success and i was doing only that occasionaly for the next one year.
After that i began collecting many recipe books and articles in magazines and i often take them and read,but won't do anything.i think most people are like that.after a while i developed interest to do a thing named kachori,as read in a book,it involves frying the dry fruits and stuffing in wet bread and then frying,i love challenges,so i took up this,as i drowned the bread in the water,it dissolved into pieces.I had a tough time in making it into a shape,after several hours of trial,i finished it,and i bite it,then only i realized that the salt in the bread went alongside with the water,we ate some pieces,and the remaining slept in the fridge before reaching its destination-the dustbin!
Exactly two weeks after that,i wanted to do something healthy,so i grinded amla and mixed it with turmeric powder and parched rice(it sounds silly no,i read about it in a leading magazine!),that was terrible and immediately thrown away...another day i plunged into action of doing fruit salad,i mixed the custard powder in boiling milk and lost myself in the unknown territory of thoughts,but my hands kindling it,after a while,i took it away to the table,only to see it becoming like cake,i inserted apple pieces on it,and told every one that it was custard apple!
once i even called my friends with confidence on my cooking skills,i planned to do fried rice,which took many forms and finally became egg rice.
I try my hand in many such things like cutlet,rolls atleast once a month,i believe practice gives perfection.I hate doing the same things everyday,doing everything with a difference and variety adds spice to life.