About Me
Hello & welcome to KeenCusininier a platform where I share my passion for food. I am born and brought up in the land of amba barfi, bakarwadi, misal, Marz-o-rin sandwich and sujata mastani. Well….you have guessed it right I am from Pune, Maharashtra, India and currently residing in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. I have spent over three years in the land of cakes & scones – Cardiff, United Kingdom.
IB Facilitator and dancer by profession and a gastronomy enthusiast by choice, my love affair with food began when I was about 10 years old. As a child I used to keenly observe my mom, grand-mom and great grandmother cooking in the kitchen. I can vividly remember making them assign me a task during cooking Diwali faral (goodies). Neither of these ladies taught me or forced me to cook while I was growing up. I think I was an observational learner and soaked as much as I can by just watching them.
I was bitten by the baking bug in 2011. All thanks to my friends’ mom who shared her pineapple pastry recepie with me. Since then I would find occasions to bake. Slowly and steadily I moved from baking pastries to making no bake cheese cake to cooking full fledged meals.
I got married in 2015 and relocated to Cardiff, United Kingdom. Since I was on a hibernation mode after relocating , I started experimenting something new everyday in my Kitchen. I am grateful to God for blessing me with a foodie husband who appreciates as well as occasionally criticizes my culinary skills. Back then I shared pictures of my cookery experiments on Facebook. Soon friends and family on my friend list started appreciating my culinary skills and asked for the recipes. Few of them even insisted me to document my culinary journey and share it with them. So I created this space to document & share my culinary journey with you all.
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Having lived in three different continents helped opened my taste pallet to the world food. My cooking style is inspired by the places I have lived and visited.
Recently our family grew by two feet and since then I choose to be a stay at home mom along with pursuing my food blog.
Keen Cuisinier is a platform where I share my daily kitchen chronicles, recipes inherited by my family & inspired by my travel. I love to cook & develop hassle free recipes using fresh produce & that’s what exactly reflects on my blog. Simple yet nutritious food is my way of life.
Come join me in exploring my love affair with food.
Hope you all enjoy reading my culinary journey. Already thanking you all for sparing some time and reading my blog. In case you have any feedback, questions or doubts feel free to get in touch with me at niketamnighojkar@gmail.com
I believe that life is too short to not to eat. So, keep cooking,keep relishing & keep sharing!