Too Many Cookbooks
03 Oct, 2006. 10 Comments. Leave a comment
The truth about me, Indian cooking and eating
The week started with a bang – a 72-megabyte email some idiot tried to send me crashed my inbox and semi-paralysed my work day.
Sitting at home in my sheep chic pyjamas after the day’s drama, I needed inspiration for our dinner. I had a pack of frozen chicken and half a pot of sun dried tomato to work with. Nice!
I know, I know, you’re wondering why the hell I don’t make a curry. Sorry to disappoint my adoring fans (all six of you, including mother) but just because I extol the virtues of Indian cooking doesn’t mean I never eat anything else. Food is all about variety and I want it all.
There is a problem though. When I don’t fancy eating Indian food I find I have too many cookbooks and not enough recipes.
I’m kinda feeling the pain of seasoned blogger Heidi Swanson, who got sick and tired of buying cookbooks and decided to actually start using them instead.
As my chicken defrosts, I’ll just have to trawl through Jamie, Nigella, Delia and whatever else I can find sitting on the shelves.
I’m honoured to be in such exclusive company, but I’m sure we few readers will multiply soon.
You might be a cook but your writing is terrible. If I were you I’d get an editor to correct your grammatical mistakes before publishing it on this website.
Hi Arti
Thanks for your comment and suggestion. Funnily, my awful writing wasn’t an issue with the major global publisher that has recently signed me on to write a whole book.
Also, it’s “correct your grammatical mistakes before publishing them” while we’re on the subject of writing.
Best
Mallika
Wow, Arti really put her/his foot in it, didn’t she/he? That was funny. Reminds me of a Canadian blogger who gets all sorts of flack from American readers about her spelling-and-grammer… which has always reflected perfectly acceptable and proper English — that is unless you play by American rules. Sigh.
Brava on your excellent response! And I am so thrilled to hear that you are signed for a book!!!! That is fantastic!
All the best.
i love your recipes. so glad i found your website and cant wait for your cookbook.
Dear Arti,
You are a tosser. Get a life.
Kind regards,
Lee.
I found and ordered the book by chance. It’s great fun. Can’t wait to try the recipes. I might even have another go at rotis … after a stiff drink!
Regards, Jane
Hi Arti
I am a writer and have just completed an MA in creative writing, my punctuation is still not the best. But in Art be it writing, cooking anything that requires a creative mind THAT should be the focus. Malika has chosen to express through blogging and cooking – let her be. What is your creative out put, what have you done to and to the colour of this world. Malika should be praised NOt slammed but fools like you.
All the best
naj
Hi
first off im chinese and i’ve eaten only chinese food all my life, the idea of spices freaks me out, but my mother bought me your lovely book a month before i left to study in india,
i have mastered 5 recipes and i loooove the lentil ones, i have on serious problem though, i am in karnataka state india and language is a huge barrier for me as i do not know hindi, almost all your dal recipes require asafoetida and i keep asking the shop keep but he has no idea what im on about, i do so love the spice and you were right even if foul smelling it is rather yum in the right amounts, please could someone tell me how to say the spice name in hindi? or kanada??
francoise, just say HEENG…to the shop
keeper…:)
happy cooking..
mallika…no doubt loved ur recipes,
more than that loved ur style of writing..
u got a whacky sense of humour..