Thank you!

Thank you to all my friends who have given me such a heart warming response to my few posts at YumMasala group on Faceboook. It's  everyone of you who makes me want to cook, create and share. My story about being a foodie is simple. Grown up in a house with tens of family members, our day went around food, our stories were shared at dinner and values were passed down, albeit unknowingly, thru all those simple meals. Growing up,I  didn't realize how that was carving me. Today, for me cooking is therapeutic. After a long day of work, I like to take few ingredients, concoct my recipe and viola, Dinner is ready. It's not that things always turn out great.Food has taught me to be forgiving, to be nimble & more than anything, to be giving.

While today at work I see the consequences of food addiction tearing people apart leaving lifelong consequences, the Foodie inside me wants to prove to the Physician inside me that there is a better way. Food does not have to take someone on a guilt trip, that cooking is an art & can be therapeutic, that we can raise our families with healthy habits, hand down our culture, and share our values around dinner table while enjoying a Yum Meal. Hence the group, YumMasala.

Hope that on this journey as I share my love of cooking through my recipes, I'll make new friends while my old friends will continue to share a bite with me.