Introducing Khojana!

Most people who know me are aware of my passion for Indian food. What began with a few home-cooked dinners and an introduction to Vindaloo escalated to near weekly visits to local restaurants, inspiring me to attempt recreating those dishes.

But it didn’t come easy. At first all I wanted to do was to duplicate the restaurant curries at home. I struggled for years attempting to do just that. But the results were often uninspiring. It wasn’t until I took a step back and started to read my cookbooks more carefully that I realized home cooking is supposed to be different. After embracing that philosophy, my dinners began to improve.

One night, inspired by a dinner I had cooked, I wrote a few paragraphs. Several months later I did it again. And again, and again. My sporadic notes slowly grew into a project with no real goal — a journal in some respects. But I kept writing, and a few years later, I began to envision it as a book. A book? That might have been a bit audacious. But after all the time I had spent writing, I was certain I wanted to “publish” it somehow.

After a great deal of pondering, I decided to revise the text, break it into small chunks and create a blog. To that end I started to post articles from my original “book” to the brand new site Khojana in January 2024. What exactly is Khojana? Read on…