Spicyandhra

I love spending time reading a novel or a cookbook with a cup of hot chai, I always look forward to come home after a hectic day, sit with cuppa, a nice book and for me thats my way of relaxing!!!I have always enjoyed flicking through the cookbooks from my childhood and I always believe in “A food picture speaks a thousand words” and that actually dragged into this food blogging world as it opened an different era in cooking when i was looking for recipes with a picture so that i have a rough idea how it looks like and how its made. When Nags @ For the Cook In Me hosting this wonderful event “Show me your Cookbooks” , I simply loved the idea and really looking forward to see what kind of books anyone would like to buy and how they get inspired by those amazing food writers.

I can’t say which cookbook or which food writer inspires me, But i can honestly claim its changed the way I live and cook .I never knew anything about cooking till 8 years back. My Lovely mom gave me a cookbook which has basic andhra recipes which are simple to make like dhal, potato fry etc.
I remember for weeks n weeks, Rocky used to have just dal, rice, omellette or potato fry thats all, those were the only dishes i used to make !! Non Veg, a big no no as its an unknown world to me.
I now wonder why didn’t I even peek into the kitchen when mom and my dad(Sundays his duty,Mom’s restday).Dad being a busy doctor, always made sure, he cooks any non veg at home on Sundays and he is the best cook I had ever seen. He used to enjoy cooking and on that particular day and he made sure that we all have family time together when the other days his kids are busy running around everywhere for projects, tuitions, hospital, research, are u guessing how many kids my dad have, I come from a very large family 5 children all together.We are an absolute bunch of 4 sisters n a brother who are so close to each other.

My inspiration to start cooking are MY DAD, MY SIS and then my wonderful cookbooks.I know they all have helped me to cultivate a genuine passion for CREATIVE & INTERESTING COOKING .

I would say my favourite of all is Jamie’s Dinners “because its simple n incredible”

Today hits the one year mark since I started blogging.It is such an exceptional day for me because through food blogging, I have met and became friends all over the world. Food blogging was a platform for me to explore my passion to cook and it also gave me an opportunity to not only read and look at the pictures of my friends blogs, It also made me more passionate about what I EAT and how I EAT.

Through blogging, I have also been able to share with you what I do everyday in my kitchen and how and what things are important to me and what holds a special place in my heart. So, in celebration of this special day, I told Noel that I will make some yummy dishes in the evening after his football club so he was so excited to go to school wondering what I am gonna make as he saw me buying some chocolate yesterday . When I started this blog I had some countless ideas and used to imagine how it will be what I wanted to do with it and what focus it would take. It seems after a year, I felt what a great time I had. I figured now is as good a time as any to point out some great things happening and see how far it’s come…

I am celebrating my blog’s anniversary in style as MY TV APPEARANCE next week on www.itv.com/bestdish, do have a look at those amazing dishes which came through all the way for a studio cookover. Win or loose, its putting in your 100% and enjoy what u do is more important then anything else so I am over the moon that atlast I am gonne see myself on TV not once but two full episodes!! So really excited!! My episodes are on 4th and 5th of October. You can catch up on their website as well.

I wouldn’t be doing justice to myself and to my BLOG and how far I have come without mentioning few of the great people whom I met in this blogging world who influenced me, advised and suggested some great things to me. A huge thank you and big hug to each one of you
Indira @ www.nandyala.org/mahanandi
Sailu @ http://www.sailusfood.com/
Bee @ http://www.jugalbandi.info/
Cynthia @ http://www.tasteslikehome.org/
Asha @ http://foodieshope.blogspot.com
Meeta @ http://.whatsforlunchhoney.blogspot.com/
Sig @ http://blog.sigsiv.com/

Girls you all Rock and here’s your Virtual Treat : Amazing Chocolate Souffle, courtesy to http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/ as I found this recipe on their website and I am trying it for the first time for you all and other lovely fellow bloggers who kindly visited my site and send their valuable inputs, comments and suggestions which means a lot to me.

This one is specially made for u all n thank u very much!!!
Hope it continous this way as I cherish each and every valuable comment you make and so far this year, while it has been one hell of a roller coaster ride, it had been unforgettable. Thanks to those that have made my year so fantastic!!!

Celebrating my blog anniversary in Style!!!
I was pretty pleased with the outcome, trying something for the first time and the end result was incredible chocolate souffle:

here’s how made it,

Things needed:
dark chocolate: 100gm chopped coarsely
plain flour: 60gm
eggs: 3
butter: 75gm
sugar: 85gm

Preheat the oven to 180C and butter 2 large ramekins.
Melt the chocolate along with butter in a bowl over simmering water.
Beat the eggs and sugar till they are very very light and fluffy .
Fold flour first and then chocolate mixture.

Pour the mixture into ramekins and bake for 8 to 12 minutes. The Souffles should raise and form a firm crust and it will be slightly runny in the middle.Noel couldn’t wait for dinner to finish so that he could have this as afters!!!All in all turned out to be an amazing dish!!