I thought cooking would never be my forte......well I have changed my mind about it. A very 'South Indian' at heart and stomach, my shift to Toronto has changed my food preferences. Sandwiches & Salads, Wedding Soup & Sausage penne pasta, Sushi & miso soup, Hot & soup Soup & Hunan Beef........I love it all. Spices a must! I love to take chances when it comes to making food or eating out... I love to cook south indian foods...Idli, Dosa, chutneys, curries, fish fries, variations using rice. I have discovered a new addiction to the oven. I use the oven to enhance taste and shorten duration for 'prep ups'. The aroma of various Kootan's (sauces) and tiffins (evening snacks)..my grandma makes them all so well.....sometimes I am proud to say I have a Deja vu when i taste my own food...did grandma make it I wonder! The first time I ever cooked all by myself was after i came to toronto as a newly wed. I cooked for 18 people. Well I missed the dal in my sambar, but nobody noticed it........it tasted real good I guess! My dessert with brown sugar was so hard.........my husband said it looked like an abstract sculpture!!!