Welcome to Edible Garden!

In addition to being passionate about cooking, I am also a blogger addict and an obsessive template-changer. For many months now, I have been irritated, frustrated and downright pissed about my boring readymade templates. What was most irritating was my lack of coding skills and I would stare at the html/CSS code in my template page for hours, trying to figure out what they meant. For those of you who have been a visitor for a while, you'd probably remember how sometimes you come here thinking this is Nags' blog and then see a template that's so different from the last time that you think you are in the wrong place. That's how many times I used to change it.

Well, finally finally, I have a template that I actually like and this time, I made all the major tweaks to it. Its nothing great. Just a minima three column that I modified painstakingly. It took me a long time. Its not yet exactly what I want either but once the header was ready, I couldn't wait another day! I learnt a good deal of html from here and I read code from online tutorials like it were an Agatha Christie novel!

As I have mentioned many times before, Shaheen was my first inspiration for food blogging. At that time, I was just excited about getting started so I didn't really give much thought to what name I should give my site or how it should look. When blogger asked me to type a title, I asked myself why I was doing this and the answer was I am doing this 'for the cook in me'. And that name stuck as my blog title for over a year. I was quite happy with the egg curry pic I took that day, though today I think I can confidently say I can take better pictures :) I have met many many talented, friendly and encouraging food bloggers who've mostly had only lovely words to say for my baby-steps towards cooking and from whom I have learnt more than I ever imagined.

Recently, TH got me the domain www.cookingandme.com since he was quite surprised it was available and that it was quite cheap! On the very same day the name Edible Garden came floating from somewhere and got stuck in my head. It refused to leave till I got a template, created a header and put the words on it.

So that's what this site is going to be called from now on - Edible Garden!

Welcome to Edible Garden, guys.

Expect more changes in here but I am still going to be same 'ol Nags :) Feel free to let me know your constructive thoughts and I will see if I know enough html to act on it. Thanks for all your support!