Something about myself :)

Hey guys, welcome to my world. My name is Hima Rajappan, living in New Jersey with my better half Briji. Speaking about myself, I am just a neighborhood gal, who loves to talk n talk n talk (blah blah blah from Briji's  point of view). Briji says I am too loud while talking, pulls my leg saying that I have swallowed a speaker :). Other than this I love making friends, traveling, reading, dance, painting (in a small way), making crafty things, cooking, you name it I am in except for skydiving!!!

Now coming to my blog, I always wanted to blog. But never knew what to blog about. Was really ignorant about blogging during college days until I landed in SCMS for my masters. Our professors encouraged us to start blogs to pen down our thoughts, but I was one lazy bum who loved to gang around with friends and have fun. But now I realized where my interest is and what I should blog about. Yes friends I am all into cooking and that is what my new world is about.

Cooking, well to talk about that we need to go a few years back. As I mentioned earlier on how lazy I was, never used to go near the kitchen. My mom is a great cook, so just waited for her to make yummy dishes. Food was always my weakness. All I could make was maggie noodles, that too when my friends come over or on group study nights (oh those were the best days of my life, graduation days). Anyways, bad cook, my mom used to be worried on how I will manage a home after marriage. But I was really lucky to get the world's best mom-in-law in all means. She was the sweetest, we are great friends. Never allowed me to enter the kitchen (maybe she was scared of my cooking ;) ).

Anyways, Briji and I relocated to US and I had no choice but start my experimentation. Surprisingly I loved it. I got some tips from my sis-in-law, but the great saver was GOOGLE.COM. I call it the Google God :). Browsed many sites, visited numerous blogs and was fascinated by the variety of dishes. Started trying out each of them and I must say Briji was a great supporter. Now I am not scared to cook and love to entertain our friends and family. I am a certified cake decorator and thats a big achievement for me. I was inspired to start a food blog from Julie and Julia  (amazing movie). So here I am :).

I should thank everybody family and friends who are supporting me. Hope you enjoy my blog and Happy Experimenting!!!