About me

Rekha Shivakumar : A homemaker who started to cook after marriage and then became passionate about it.

Why ReshKitchen?

I first started documenting recipes as a hobby and then slowly became passionate about food. The whole process of searching for a good recipe,learning about ingredients,cooking techniques started fascinating me.

This page focuses on creating recipes with simple ingredients that are mostly available in our pantry. I believe that even with minimal ingredients you can create magic in food. The recipes are easy to follow and most of the time I add step-wise pictures for easy understanding. I hope you will love it. This is my humble attempt to share my knowledge on food, kitchen experiments, memories associated with certain recipe and so on. I hope you will love it.

Motivation:

My better Shiva is my support system, the one who insisted me to start blog and document my recipes. Even though I had only very minimal audience for so many years he kept motivating me to continue what I love. Also some of the regular readers from Instagram family who keeps motivating me, send me pics of tried recipes, send their kind words of love for non-food related posts too. And ofcourse my dearest family & friends.

Inspirations :

As every other daughter my mom is my first inspiration when it comes to cooking. Then my maternal Grandmother and mother-in-law.

There are 1000s & 1000s of food based blog,websites. I try to learn from them as much as possible. Also I follow so many talented homecooks, professionals in Instagram and in other social media sites.Each and everyone is unique in their own way. I give due credits to the recipe source here if I recreate them at my kitchen.

Favorite Food :

Amma Sapadu is always the best.. Growing up have never gotten many chances to try different cuisines both regional and international. In the past 10-13 years I was fortunate to try various new varities of food both at home and restaurants. My all time favorite Rasam+Potato fry, a good cheesy Lasagna, Burrito Bowl, Naan + Paneer Butter Masala 😋😋

Camera & Other details :

During the initial stages of blogging I had Olympus point and shoot camera. Then used my Sony Xperia Arc, Iphone 6 to take food pictures. In 2015 bought a DSLR Camera and have updated few of the old posts with new images. From 2017 most of the pics in the recipe posts are taken in Pixel 2 XL. As much as I love to explore DSLR and learn the nuances of Food Photography laziness takes over me 🙆😒

All the food pictures here are taken by me. Most of them are taken at broad day light, few at nights. I apologize for the quality of pictures if they are not clear. In the process of uploading high resolution images for each and every post. Hopefully will complete it soon 🤞

Feedback and Suggestions :

If you have something to say about my post or recipe kindly leave your comments.Your feedback and suggestion means a lot to me. Thanks for visiting my page. If you have any further queries or would like to request a recipe for me to try email me : reshkitchen@gmail.com