About

I started this blog as I really began to take interest in food and cooking – it was a discovery years after literally being “spoon fed” by my mom and her amazing cooking. I don’t remember really cooking much while I spent my 23 years living at home (yes much to the shock of many teens today, that was and is probably quite the norm in India, where I grew up).

I was surrounded by many foodies in the family though, who were all, in their own way, connoisseurs of the cooking and the tasting of good food. The food at home was mostly traditional South Indian, or Tamil Brahmin (TamBrahm for short) cuisine. We traveled all over India when I was growing up as my father was in the Military, which exposed my taste buds to the many flavors of Indian cuisine (Kashmiri, Avadhi (Lucknow), Andhra, Hyderabadi. But I got my true initiation into the world of food outside India thanks to my foodie uncle. My first ever visit to Singapore (where he lived) when I was 16 was a mind and palate opening experience for me that gave me my first global food experience. There was no looking back after as I traveled around the world, savoring many cuisines and always being fascinated by the many flavors. I still feel like I have so much more to taste and explore within India and hope to fulfill this dream soon:)

I became quite obsessed with food, both the eating and the cooking and collecting recipes, when I moved to the US for my studies, but it was after I got married and had my own kitchen that I started to really experiment with cooking.  I am a vegetarian by upbringing and now by choice and love to taste and try anything vegetarian in my cooking. We do eat eggs so you will find some egg dishes and in here and many cakes and cupcakes that use egg, but I am increasingly experimenting with egg-less baking, thanks to some very inspiring bloggers out there.

This blog took birth a few years ago, when I was living in the US, more as a means to capture traditional south Indian dishes of my mom and my grandma’s — recipes I could never find easily back then. It has since morphed into all things vegetarian though I still give precedence to TamBrahm recipes that are family “heirlooms” – my mom’s recipes, my mother-in-law’s, my sisters-in-law’s, my foodie Uncle’s and my husband’s. I told you, we are a family of foodies:). My son is now experimenting with food and is vying for a mention too — he is getting to be a budding food critic – so most of my blog entries usually have to have his thumbs up:)

Roz ka khana in hindi means food for the day or “every day food”. You can call it more of a food journal of musings from my kitchen and others. The recipes here are inspired – some original, some borrowed, but mostly a reflection of my experiments in the kitchen.

Roz ka Khana comes to you from Dallas, TX,  now from Singapore.