About

Hello and welcome to Culinary Haven
If you are unfamiliar with Culinary Haven, please allow me to take a moment to introduce you to the site. The first thing you should know is that Culinary Haven is a blog or a personal website, created and maintained by me, Sheuli Mukherjee Bhatia. Unlike most of the large recipe sites that you might find on the Internet with tens of thousands of recipes, Culinary Haven is my personal website, with only a few hundred recipes, all tested by me, my family or my friends. We invite you to try the recipes, and if you would like, leave constructive feedback in the comments. Do you have a recipe binder or box of recipe index cards? Think of this site as our family sharing the recipes in our recipe binder with you. As we cook the recipes multiple times, we often think of improvements and update the recipes. So keep in mind that what you see here is a work in progress.

How we got started
Last month, i.e since Sept 2008 I started writing down the recipes I had grown up with and posting them to my website. I had just turned 28, and had spent the last 5 years working as a hectic Corporate environment with little time to cook, let alone learn how to cook beyond what I had learned growing up. I come from a nuclear family and thought what a terrific family project, to document our family recipes! My mother is an excellent home cook, mom by necessity to raise me in a middle class income. She could whip up recipe using minimal things.

Where we get the recipes
Many of the recipes are old family recipes, many we make up, and many of them are those that we pull from cookbooks, magazines, and newspaper clippings we’ve collected over the years. If we have pulled a recipe from another source, we try to attribute that source where we can (sometimes it’s hard when you only have a clipping.) The recipes shown here use mostly whole food ingredients and only occasionally a few things from cans or prepared foods. We believe in a varied, healthy diet, using real butter, real cream, eggs, lots of green vegetables, and protein from meat, fish, beans, and cheese.

About comments
Comments are welcome on most of the recipes and posts. I would ask that if you would like to leave a comment that you think of this website as my family’s home and that you wouldn’t say anything on this site that you wouldn’t, as an invited guest, say in someone’s home. Constructive criticism is welcome, as we all benefit from such advice. Rude, mean, or obnoxious comments are not welcome and will not be approved to post (that’s me, gently escorting the misbehaving guest out of the house). Please restrict your comments to the topic at hand, for the benefit of all who may be reading.

About Sheuli
My name is Sheuli Mukherjee Bhatia and I live in Hyderabad, India. Formerly I was a Management Trainee with GE Capital International Services in Call Centre and for the last two years, an internet marketing professional. I. maintain several weblogs in addition to Culinary Haven. I can be reached through email at sheuli5 AT rediffmail {dot] com

Thanks so much for visiting Culinary Haven!