Monday, November 29, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Your comments on the new look please...
What do you think about the new look of One pagers ? They take 10 times longer to create, but if you really like the new look, I'll change them !
/Cheers
Ramki
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
One page cookbooks - Core beliefs
1. Cooking is simple, if you get the big picture straight. 2. Cooking is highly personal – you alone decide what tastes good. 3. Traditional recipes are general guidelines – not rigid instructions. 4. “The perfect way” to cook a dish is a myth. Even highly traditional dishes are cooked in many different ways. Recipes are alive and change with time and place. They are meant to be experimented with. 5. Cooking is more about fun, creativity & making healthy food than about fancy techniques, exotic ingredients and eye popping presentation. 6. Themes are universal. Each cuisine translates them with local Ingredients into recipes. 7. As with one, so with most others. If one flour can be turned into bread/ pasta / noodles / porridge / crepes /dumpling, most other flours can be too. 8. Anything goes with anything. It is a fallacy to believe that only a select few combinations work. |
9. Each extra step in a recipe doubles its complexity. Duplicating a recipe is virtually impossible.
10. Recipe purity is no different from racial purity or linguistic purity - It just does not exist. What is traditional today was esoteric a few decades back. Cuisines influence each other and evolve all the time. |
Sunday, November 14, 2010
International recipes eBook now available
My latest book " One page cookbook - International recipes" is finally done! It details fool proof recipes and variations of international sauces, dips, salads, soups, staples and desserts. If you want a sneak preview, mail me ( siramki at gmail dot com). Would love to have your comments before sending it off to the printers. This is a no strings attached offer for the first 50 respondents only !
/Cheers
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Friday, November 05, 2010
Sweets of India - Major families
For more variations check out Laddoos, Halwas, Brittles, Bengali Sweets, Shrikhand, Kheer and the simple no-cook Indian desserts
Thursday, November 04, 2010
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About Me
- Ramki
- Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
- Okay, let me start from the very beginning. 1500 crore years ago, with a Big Bang, the Universe is born. It expands dramatically. Hydrogen forms, contracts under gravity and lights up, forming stars. Some stars explode, dusting space with the building blocks of life. These condense into planets, one of which is Earth. Over time, self replicating molecules appear, multiply and become more complex. They create elaborate survival machines (cells, plants, animals). A variety of lifeforms evolve. Soon, humans arise, discover fire, invent language, agriculture and religion. Civilisations rise and fall. Alexander marches into India. Moguls establish an empire. Britain follows. Independence. Partition. Bloodshed. The license raj is in full sway. I'm born. India struggles to find its place. Liberalisation. The Internet arrives! I move from Tirupur to Chennai. Start a company. Expand into Malaysia, Singapore and the Middle East. Poof! Dot com bust. Funding dries up. Struggle. Retire. Discover the joy of cooking, giving, friendships and the pleasures of a simple life. Life seems less complicated. Pizza Republic, Pita Bite and Bhojan Express bloom !
