Writing, Resolutions and Me!!!

New Year and Me go in tandem with Resolutions. Sometimes I keep them and many times I don't. One resolution I have successfully kept over the last many years is to be a vegetarian 5 days in a week. SO, that is a success story, according to me. For a person born and brought up in a coastal town, fish was staple food, everyday. And I do love fish.

This year's primary resolution has been to write. Haven't I heard this before?!! Well, so what if it is my first step again?! I have been keeping first steps on this space and every time the second step goes missing. One more try, one more time and I intend to keep trying, without letting myself down. Isn't failure to get up after a fall, the actual failure?

The last year has been a little encouraging to me to pursue my thoughts in writing ever since I took the Programming for Everybody Course in Coursera.com. I know what anyone should be thinking now. Though my programming skills may not have taken a cheetah's leap, my faith in my writing skills have taken, at least a kitten's leap. I need to specially thank all the wonderful souls that read my essays in the course and for unanimously appreciating my thoughts and encouraging me with their kind words. I never seemed to have believed all my wonderful friends who have been doing precisely the same thing over the ages. I somehow told them and myself that they were being too kind to me. To all my dear friends, I am sorry for not taking you seriously over the ages. I am trying to, now. Specially since I so enjoy writing and reading it again after a long time and wondering and remembering what made me write what I did. Hope it is not too confusing. :)

By the way, this isn't the only resolution either. I will come out with the others in public with myself when I have the guts to do it. Until then, I will keep this resolution and enjoy it while I do.

Disclaimer

Well.. This is something that I have decided to do before I start posting big time on food. (Thats what I hope to do to help myself in the process)

Okay. I have not been made a great cook or with the ability to dish out different items out of my head. Well, I doubt what I can dish out of my head. Anyway.. But I have to cook on a daily basis and with regular, albeit forced training for the last few years since my marriage, I have been able to manage the survival of a minimum of two human beings at any given point of time. And to also note is that, one of the two is quite demanding on the perfection of taste. :) I leave it to you to decide who.. This, I have been able to do, primarily with the existence of the huge blogging community and the numerous videos posted online. I grab it from here and there and tweek it to our family tastes and have survived my tests.

So far so good. But the problem arises when I try to redo the same dish again and my painful memory fails. Of course I keep a record of what I took from where but at the end of the day, when I do decide to cook a particular dish, I see myself exploring all the recipies once again. This has become more complicating with the increasing number of choices. So I have decided to create a catalog of my own so that I can refer to it immediately as and when I need it.

While doing this catalog, I promise to refer back to the website from which I have taken the original recipie or to my friends or family from whom I have learned to cook the particular dish. I am not aware of any particular procedure that I have to follow for this process, but my guess is that when I credit the person from whom I have sourced the recipie, I am doing good, for both of us.