Welcome to my table!

I've been cooking since I was about 17 (and that time more than a decade away now). I can't remember how it started, but I know it was because my family spent a fair amount of time in the kitchen, mostly in the evenings when my mother cooked dinner and the rest (my father, sister and I) of us bundled into the kitchen keeping her company as she turned out dish after delicious dish for us all. While we exchanged news about how the day had been for each of us, my mother sometimes asked me to help with small tasks that were part of the recipes she was working out or thinking up on the spot. My love for cooking was founded in those early experiences and has only grown stronger since then. Today, when I can cook a full meal for my family and friends, with or without help from another person, I feel grateful for those days, when I learnt that cooking is a skill that ANYONE can and should learn, for survival surely, but just as importantly for enjoyment and self-expression. 

Not surprisingly, while almost everyone I know is fond of good food, very few of the men actually cook. Some are interested in how food is made, but don't know enough about it to actually hazard making a start, others have not even given it a thought and the rest are downright afraid of cooking, being quite content to leave it in the hands of women (or male chefs). 

This blog is not my way of trying to convert every man into a pan-wielding culinarian. It's my attempt to tell my fellow men that they have the option! :) good cooking is not something inborn but acquired and we can all acquire it (maybe in different degrees, but acquire it nevertheless). So this is where I'll keep sharing the results of my experiments with food and hopefully, they'll inspire some of the chaps out there to cast fear before the wind and plunge into the world of veggies, savouries, desserts and more! 

Thanks for reading this so far. Stay tuned! :)