How I started cooking

I did not understand food. And I was the exact opposite of what a foodie is. I always had this fantasy that ONE DAY! I will cook. But I kept pushing that day to after college, after work, after Post Grad and now, “after I finish my Yoga course”.

We will have mental blocks about one thing or the other. It is so obvious to you that you CANNOT do a certain thing that you absolutely fail to realize it is a block.

No matter what it is, it can be as small as, “I cannot travel alone”. “I cannot dance”. “OMG I cannot speak with him face to face”. Or any other “I cannot” you can think about.

But two weeks back I took it on myself to cook my lunch or not eat at all. Keeping my stomach empty would mean that I would not have the strength to go to Yoga class and that is something I couldn’t afford to miss out on.

So I started preparing a simple tomato rice dish and cooked it almost every day. Recently I learned how to cook roti and later, capsicum aloo bhaji and daal tadka + jeera rice.

My biggest motivator was the first word of Patanjali’s first yoga sutra which is अथ i.e. NOW. How I interpret it is – if you want to do something, take an action in the present moment.

I am extremely thankful to my friends, my sister, and Abhi who have always encouraged me.

This post is dedicated to Reshmy, Shubha aunty, Sonya, Dimple, Abhi, Upasana, and Sankhesh.

First roti

Aloo Capsicum subzi

Jeera rice and Dal Tadka

Tomato rice

Tomato rice with red bell pepper

Attempt at making aloo bhajiya

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