Testimonials

Pakashastra is amazing

Pakashastra is amazing in multiple ways. While most of the blogs focus on a cuisine, I like how Pakashastra showcases recipes from across the globe. From tiny village in India to New York, you’ll find all in there. Not only it is well curated but I have tasted quite a lot of dishes and they are lip smacking!

Dictionary of Tasty Recipes

The first sweet I made was “china grass burfi” found in pakashastra. I must say it turned out exactly the way my husband expected – “very tasty” !!! After then on be it soft idli or vegetable stew or any new dish I follow Pakashastra first. It gives panaroma of recipes.

Wonderful and great achievement!

Wonderful and great achievement! You reached your goal in your field. For any success, knowledge is important. If you have knowledge then you can earn anything. Knowledge is asset. Your Pakashastra is universally acceptable. Your involvement and perfection is fundamental for your success. All the best and bright future.

Ashwini’s Love for Cooking

Ashwini’s love for cooking started as young as 6-7 years or earlier. Her mother is one of the most amazing cooks on the earth and I have very fond memories of us enjoying both traditional and innovative cooking. Ingredients were not readily available then and the Internet was far from reach. Noting down the recipes from friends and family and jotting it down while cooking shows played on TV was indeed challenging. However, experimenting with those dishes was always really exhilarating. We the wholesome foodie family were always open to new dishes; the art of which Ashwini has inherited in her genes.

Ashwini is a very creative girl, be it drawing, dressing up or cooking. She is a perfectionist, and back then honestly made some of us miserable with her antics! The reality is that she takes time to assess things, has a ton of patience and exhibits what she had in her mind at the dinner table. The ingredients were her brush, and the plate was her canvas.

A memory I still vividly remember is of her making Cakes on sand-bottom ovens; the taste still lingers in my mouth. She has never lost her love for cooking in any circumstances, even when her highly-demanding job, her children, or migrations to a new place occupied her time, focus, and energy.

In fact, moving to a new home gave wings to her imagination. It’s hard to keep track of the dishes she has cooked all this time and I always admire the little girl happily cooking Maggi sitting on the kitchen countertop, who now runs a successful blog, making hundreds of delicacies, the types of which I had not even heard of! Pursuing what she loves so steadily with the same vigour amidst her other responsibilities is a wonderful ability, a rival even to a star chef.

Pakashastra is one of the highest rated food blogs which I refer to very often for my cooking needs. Her posts for a new recipe are always precise, compact, authentic, easy to follow and most certainly tried and tested by herself. Pakashastra will go a long way, and Ashwini will appeal to more palates with every recipe she posts.

Travel around the world through food

I was waiting eagerly for Pakashastra to launch. Ashwini’s recipes are very precise and easy to follow and you exactly know how the end result is going to turn out. Your recipes have not only inspired me to cook but made me try new recipes that I never thought I could make. Not only the recipes, but the cooking techniques that I have learned from you makes cooking easy and fun. Until I met Ashwini, my knowledge for southern Indian cooking was idli and dosa. But she opened up the whole new horizon of southern Indian cooking that I didn’t know and what I was missing. Thank you so much for being such an inspiration. Looking forward to more recipes and ideas.