Show us one person who doesn't love food, and we can bet Rushina Munshaw-Ghildiyal can convert them in minutes with one of her innumerable culinary experiments!

Actually, let's not talk any more. Let's just let you get a taste of Rushina, from her kitchen. Here goes the first of her columns!

Photograph: Stock.Xchange (Picture used for illustrative purposes only)

All that screeched to a resounding halt when I got down to writing the first piece.

Somewhere after my sixth rewrite, I made a frantic call to my husband looking for direction. No big deal. I woke him up at some godforsaken time of the night in the United States of America. Ten years of knowing me have stood him in good stead.

Without missing a beat, he said, "You know how we always say, quickly prepared dishes sometimes turn out better than the most elaborately prepared recipes? Maybe you are just trying too hard."