Pseudo Chef’s Julie & Julia Project 2.0

The Project:

So, here is a Pseudo Chef doing Julie & Julia Project 2.0.

365 days. Around 70 recipes. One girl stuck in the crazy advertising work hours. And a kitchen borrowed from her mother on hourly basis.

Why? Four brief reasons:

1.  The movie Julie & Julia. It was so inspiring that I think, I have proposed this idea to almost all my friends who are good at cooking.

2.  Julie Powell. I didn’t really know that the movie is based on a real life story. I browsed through Powell’s blogs, and was seriously wowed by her commitment.

3.  Maria Goretti. One of my childhood heroes. Back then, she impressed me by her style and her choice of music, now she is impressing me by her secret ingredients. Maria might even detest this idea. I hope she doesn’t. But, remember Julia Child saying that Julie is not a serious cook? I am not a serious cook definitely. That’s why I call myself a Pseudo Chef. But I am very serious about this project, and about learning something new in a fun way. And this sure is the ‘funnest ways of them all’.

4.  I enjoy cooking, but hardly get time to enter my kitchen. I either can’t take time out of my schedule or always find the kitchen occupied by three dominating women of the house – mother, sister, and our domestic help, Lata Tai (order of dominance from least to most). So, this would be a good motivation for me to do that.

The Book:

‘From My Kitchen to Yours: Food, Love And Other Ingredients’

A debut recipe book by Maria Goretti, a model-VJ-actor-singer turned blogger-cook-author. The book is divided into easy-to-do monthly menus with soups, salads, starters, non-vegetarian and vegetarian main course dishes, and desserts.

Maria has always been one of the favourites from the-then MTV VJ gang. So, grabbing a copy of her debut was a mandate.

The Contender:

‘A copywriter by vocation. A dreamer by avocation.’

Well, that’s what most of my social media bios say. As far as the real story is concerned, I am just another almost-nearing-her-thirties-and-still-doesn’t-know-how-to-cook girl.

I’ve always been staying with my family, hence entering a kitchen to cook something independently was a rare phenomenon. However, ever since I’ve been a little particular about health and fitness (forced to do so by the newly acquired cellulite deposits around my waistline), I’ve been experimenting often.

Inspired by the famous ‘Julie & Julia’ story, I’ve signed on for an equally deranged assignment.

365 days. Around 70 recipes. One girl stuck in the crazy advertising work hours. And a kitchen borrowed from her mother on hourly basis.

Pseudo Chef’s Julie & Julia Project 2.0

From Maria’s Kitchen to Priyanka’s.

*Bowing down nervously*