Do you like cooking ?

M.Thamarai Selvi wrote:

I like cooking very much and cook different varieties of food. Gender is not a matter in cooking. While you are good in cooking which makes bonding in relationship. And, this is true.

Yes food is an important and integral part of our life so, it is bound to affect our lives. At least one of the couple shd be able to cook decently or else engage a cook ..

usha manohar wrote:

M.Thamarai Selvi wrote:

I like cooking very much and cook different varieties of food. Gender is not a matter in cooking. While you are good in cooking which makes bonding in relationship. And, this is true.

Yes food is an important and integral part of our life so, it is bound to affect our lives. At least one of the couple shd be able to cook decently or else engage a cook ..

Cooking is a life skill and one of the most innovative creations of human life. It is so vibrant and says so much about socio-economical and geographical features of a place. 

Cooking is an art. Cooking is essential to life and very beneficial to eating healthy, and therefore being healthy. With Home cooking the ingredients and the Dishes can be controlled, and portions commensurate with one's appetite. Cooking i at home, generally saves money over eating at restaurants.

rambabu wrote:

Cooking is an art. Cooking is essential to life and very beneficial to eating healthy, and therefore being healthy. With Home cooking the ingredients and the Dishes can be controlled, and portions commensurate with one's appetite. Cooking i at home, generally saves money over eating at restaurants.

Home cooking is good for our health and health of our pocket as well.

One should have variety in life even with regard to food..No doubt home food is healthier when care is taken to make it balanced and nutritious . I know of households where the lady cooks rice , dhal and fish at the most. This is definitely not balanced diet and you are better off eating Chinese food or a thali meal in a restaurant . So, it all depends on how much thought has gone into making food wholesome ..

Cooking is an integral part of one's life and it brings variety of flavors into a person's life. Cooking can be done in such a way, it can either invoke a mouth-watering reaction or make us reconsider the idea of actually eating the whole meal. The proper mixture of all the ingredients cooked with patience and love can make eating a wonderful experience for anyone. Whether it is men or women, both of them are cooking when they are required to cook like boys who live in hostels cook for themselves occasionally. Whether you cook daily or sometimes or once in a month, I think cooking is a skill we should possess as we can't anticipate when we will be alone and in need to cook to eat something healthy that is made in home.

Arunima Singh wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

M.Thamarai Selvi wrote:

I like cooking very much and cook different varieties of food. Gender is not a matter in cooking. While you are good in cooking which makes bonding in relationship. And, this is true.

Yes food is an important and integral part of our life so, it is bound to affect our lives. At least one of the couple shd be able to cook decently or else engage a cook ..

Cooking is a life skill and one of the most innovative creations of human life. It is so vibrant and says so much about socio-economical and geographical features of a place. 

Absolutely ! even within a district we find so many different ways of making a single dish depending on the region. For example there is a very popular Mangalorean dish called chicken sukka, which is prepared in different ways in different parts of the district. So one can imagine what it is when it comes to different states within the nation..

usha manohar wrote:

Arunima Singh wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

M.Thamarai Selvi wrote:

I like cooking very much and cook different varieties of food. Gender is not a matter in cooking. While you are good in cooking which makes bonding in relationship. And, this is true.

Yes food is an important and integral part of our life so, it is bound to affect our lives. At least one of the couple shd be able to cook decently or else engage a cook ..

Cooking is a life skill and one of the most innovative creations of human life. It is so vibrant and says so much about socio-economical and geographical features of a place. 

Absolutely ! even within a district we find so many different ways of making a single dish depending on the region. For example there is a very popular Mangalorean dish called chicken sukka, which is prepared in different ways in different parts of the district. So one can imagine what it is when it comes to different states within the nation..

ability to prepare different Varieties of food often helps in avoiding monotony. My wife is a good cook. But her cooking abilities are restricted to a limited varieties.

rambabu wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

Arunima Singh wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

M.Thamarai Selvi wrote:

I like cooking very much and cook different varieties of food. Gender is not a matter in cooking. While you are good in cooking which makes bonding in relationship. And, this is true.

Yes food is an important and integral part of our life so, it is bound to affect our lives. At least one of the couple shd be able to cook decently or else engage a cook ..

Cooking is a life skill and one of the most innovative creations of human life. It is so vibrant and says so much about socio-economical and geographical features of a place. 

Absolutely ! even within a district we find so many different ways of making a single dish depending on the region. For example there is a very popular Mangalorean dish called chicken sukka, which is prepared in different ways in different parts of the district. So one can imagine what it is when it comes to different states within the nation..

ability to prepare different Varieties of food often helps in avoiding monotony. My wife is a good cook. But her cooking abilities are restricted to a limited varieties.

It right that to avoid monotony we must be tried food than our regular one. But it is not possible everyday. For everyday our traditional food can give us satisfication. If some ask me to eat rice for 7 days, it is not possible for me. Dal Chapati is my first choice.

anil wrote:

rambabu wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

Arunima Singh wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

M.Thamarai Selvi wrote:

I like cooking very much and cook different varieties of food. Gender is not a matter in cooking. While you are good in cooking which makes bonding in relationship. And, this is true.

Yes food is an important and integral part of our life so, it is bound to affect our lives. At least one of the couple shd be able to cook decently or else engage a cook ..

Cooking is a life skill and one of the most innovative creations of human life. It is so vibrant and says so much about socio-economical and geographical features of a place. 

Absolutely ! even within a district we find so many different ways of making a single dish depending on the region. For example there is a very popular Mangalorean dish called chicken sukka, which is prepared in different ways in different parts of the district. So one can imagine what it is when it comes to different states within the nation..

ability to prepare different Varieties of food often helps in avoiding monotony. My wife is a good cook. But her cooking abilities are restricted to a limited varieties.

It right that to avoid monotony we must be tried food than our regular one. But it is not possible everyday. For everyday our traditional food can give us satisfication. If some ask me to eat rice for 7 days, it is not possible for me. Dal Chapati is my first choice.

Yes. eating same food day in and Day out bores me.  We in my house eat both Chapati and Rice. I prefer to eat chapati during nights.

Certain basic food items can never bore us even if we eat them every day like for example most Mangaloreans have fish curry, rice and vegetables almost every day of the week except weekends when they have chicken or mutton. In fact they miss it even if they have to forego their staple diet for a couple  of days 

Yes, we the coastal people andhra Pradesh, eat Fish every day, Even dry fish too never bores us.

rambabu wrote:

Yes, we the coastal people andhra Pradesh, eat Fish every day, Even dry fish too never bores us.

actually they are addicted to it and that's why they never get bored.

Surely we all enjoy our staple food and  do not get bored of it. For us, daal and roti makes our meal complete. However, having traveled a lot since young age and lived in various countries and having friends of all cultures, my daughters have no such staple diet. They are real foodies and enjoy everything

usha manohar wrote:

Certain basic food items can never bore us even if we eat them every day like for example most Mangaloreans have fish curry, rice and vegetables almost every day of the week except weekends when they have chicken or mutton. In fact they miss it even if they have to forego their staple diet for a couple  of days 

True...it is the staple food which we are used to eating daily that never tires us. Other foods such as pizzas, burgers and similar items are no doubt, tasty, but we can never eat them on daily basis. Also it is a matter of taste that we are used to. For the last five days I was in Nasik at my FIL's place and since he had been staying with my elder brother-in-law for the last 1.5 years and a few months with us, there were no rations or provisions to cook food, so we were eating from a homemade tiffin service which my FIL uses. Although it is the same kind of staple such as roti-sabji, daal-chaval etc. the taste is quite different in NAsik than what I am used to in Pune, so I was a bit bored of it after two days.

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

Certain basic food items can never bore us even if we eat them every day like for example most Mangaloreans have fish curry, rice and vegetables almost every day of the week except weekends when they have chicken or mutton. In fact they miss it even if they have to forego their staple diet for a couple  of days 

True...it is the staple food which we are used to eating daily that never tires us. Other foods such as pizzas, burgers and similar items are no doubt, tasty, but we can never eat them on daily basis. Also it is a matter of taste that we are used to. For the last five days I was in Nasik at my FIL's place and since he had been staying with my elder brother-in-law for the last 1.5 years and a few months with us, there were no rations or provisions to cook food, so we were eating from a homemade tiffin service which my FIL uses. Although it is the same kind of staple such as roti-sabji, daal-chaval etc. the taste is quite different in NAsik than what I am used to in Pune, so I was a bit bored of it after two days.

I am ok with any food as long as it is tasty...But when you travel to other countries and are eating random meals because you get so taken up with sight seeing, the first few days are exiting but then you start longing for home food. Once I was away for two months eating just sandwiches, pasta, soup ...I enjoyed the food but I was also equally happy to be home and eat rice and dhal after all that time.

Well, that is the beauty of home cooked staple food. It feeds your soul. Outside food is sometimes good to indulge yourself, give yourself a break, to explore and experiment with your taste buds. But it is the simple home cooked food that gives the utmost satisfaction.. i think it is love that makes it so content

Arunima Singh wrote:

Well, that is the beauty of home cooked staple food. It feeds your soul. Outside food is sometimes good to indulge yourself, give yourself a break, to explore and experiment with your taste buds. But it is the simple home cooked food that gives the utmost satisfaction.. i think it is love that makes it so content

You aid it Arunima! The food that we are used to is the same food we ate while growing up, prepared by our mothers and grandmothers and fed to us with love and affection. That is why most of our happy memories as a child are associated with food and home, because that is where our soul lies, and the staple food is the food for our soul!

For sure, food not only provides nourishment to body but nourishment to social and emotional development. All our functions and rituals revolve around food. From happy celebrations to the mourning rituals after death, food is a part of everything

Each region has some special dishes prepared during certain festivals and it gets passed on through generations and it also gets influenced on by other traditions that migrants follow. In Mangalore we have quite a few such influences which have now become part of our own culture.