About Me

Hello there fellow-foodies!

Welcome to my little world of food blogging :)

To nurture my childhood passion for writing, I started my blogging odyssey with My Little Space. A few years and a wedding later, with my very own little kitchen and a photography enthusiast hubby and a fellow foodie, I discovered a deeper passion of food blogging and food photography within me. This was how Nans yum-yums! was born :)

As I juggle between being a Technical Writer and a home-maker, I have not much time to hang around the kitchen for too long. So my recipes are quick to make that mostly require simple ingredients that can be easily obtained.

I love simple creative cooking and I enjoy playing around with food presentation. I am not much of a recipe follower, frankly I don't have the patience to follow a recipe step-by-step. I read through them, at times couple of similar recipes, and then having gotten an idea I create my own version of the dish... my way! 

Apart from everyday cooking, I LOVE baking and am addicted to baking breads and buns. My bakes are simple, easy to recreate and are all egg-less.

I am a completely self-taught baker. Baking has brought along so much joy with it that now I cannot imagine my life as a non-baker. My mother, who once gorged on cakes, is now a complete vegetarian. As soft, tasty egg-less cakes are not easily available, she dearly misses those simple cakes she once used to love. For that very reason I took a particular interest in egg-less bakes. I wanted to be able to give her back that joy of devouring a cake, which is just as tasty and soft as its counterpart, that is made of eggs. 

Apart from simple egg-less cakes, bread baking entices me. Getting to know about yeast, working with it, experimenting, failing, trying again, failing again and then trying till I got it right! I enjoyed the whole process until finally I managed to get my basics of bread baking right. I still remember the ecstasy that engulfed me when I pulled out my first batch of perfectly baked bread from the oven.... it was Wholewheat Garlic Bread Rolls, which is a family favourite to this day. Oh, that joy revisits every single time I bake something! There is something extremely satisfying about baking that only fellow bakers can relate to. 

While hubby is not at his favourite hobby of photography, I kidnap his SLR and click away my foodie pics :) I use a Canon 400D with a 50mm lens. (Psst.. though he has tried to share his vast knowledge on photography with me, not much has been absorbed :D I just know some basics and try my hand at capturing my food pics as best as I can.)

Recently I have ventured into conducting baking workshops for kids and adults. If this is something that interests you, read more here: Baking Workshops.

Thanks for dropping by my space. Hope my posts interest you and are of help in some way.

See you around :)

Nans!