Why I Stopped Blogging

Because I ran out of recipes.

I woke up one day and realised that the reason I started blogging in the first place was this: I got married, I was now cooking more than just khichdi and Maggi and this meant frequently calling various members of the family for recipes that would work no matter what. So I decided to record them online coz my recently acquired smartphone could help me get online from within the kitchen should I need to consult a recipe. Yay. Why bother with scribbling in books and get them all turmeric stained while leafing through a recipe you cannot find fast enough? I have always missed the CTRL+F function in books.

And I have run out of recording those recipes.

We are simple eaters. We eat rice, rotis, whole wheat pasta, rice noodles on most days of the week. We stick to the sauces we most like and both of us are perfectly thrilled to bits about regular old dal, veggies and curries. Once in a fancypants while, we make pizza from scratch, risotto, hummus & pita from scratch, one pot meals or something very, very traditional.

Given how hard we both work at home and outside it, making fancy stuff from scratch is not something we do anymore. If we want to eat something too fancy, we go out and eat at a very, very good restaurant. We save ourselves the effort and dishwashing and that suits us just fine. A lot of people may not agree with me but when you run a house and keep no maid and are a freelancer working five different jobs and across time zones, your priorities shift from food to rest.

So why bother with recipes? Once in a while, if we need something different, I consult my various cookbooks and blogs that I deeply trust and take that leap. Why blog that? It's already 'out there'. And about reviewing? I still do like going out to sample good food and talk about it so I remember that we ate something really, really good at some point. But I go for very few of those now. There are too many people out there who know too little but talk too much. It gets tiring.

What would be great? Reviewing food from a place that has good food, where I can go with a very small group of people or maybe even alone, and not have to indulge in forced niceties. That would be the only reason to keep this space alive.

Apart from, maybe, talking about nutrition and health married to good, delicious food. We see so little of it these days. We see so little of people who are passionate about food not just because it tastes good and looks good but because it also truly, deeply nourishes you.

That is why I stopped blogging - because I did not have enough powerful excuses to. I have a few now. I also managed to free up sometime. I also moved to a new house (yay!) and now that I am done setting up, it'd be nice to come back here and talk. Not about recipes so much, but about great food that we ate. Over fun times that we had.

If you are still reading this blog, thank you for hanging around and waiting for me :) And let the good times begin!