Who writes this blog?

Please re-phrase the question to say “who all write this blog” coz there isn’t one but two writers.

The authors of this blog- Lakshmi and Mandira are social workers by profession but have interests that range well beyond the limits of the subject they have studied- cooking or rather baking being just one of them. They live in Chennai and Mumbai respectively and extensively use the short message service offered by cell phone operators and instant message services of gmail to keep in touch. They both work full-time and enjoy the work they do, even though they wish they could work shorter hours. Though generally categorised as “normal”, they have been know to show a streak of insanity occasionally.

How did Baking Buddies come about?

Baking buddies was a direct result of a late night chat with always-enthusiastic Lakshmi. A bizarre, almost impractical idea was thrown at Mandira. Mandira’s was sluggish and that led her to accept the idea of co-writing another blog.

That in one-line that the story of the genesis of this blog.

You mentioned “another blog” does that mean the writers be found elsewhere on the blogosphere as well?

Sure they can! They are an over ambitious duo. They like to bite more than we can chew. Therefore they maintain other blogs as well.

Lakshmi can be found on theyumblog.wordpress.com and qtol.wordpress.com while Mandira can be spotted on churningthewordmill.wordpress.com

Ok so you guys got yourselves a blog. What are you gonna do with it?

If we go by the leader-Lakshmi’s view, this is the simple part. As the name suggests we are going to be baking. So each month we decide on a few goodies to bake. Both of us bake  and then write out our experiences and post pictures of the final product along with the recipes. We’ll also tell you what went wrong or what can be done to make the dish better. So basically, this blog is like a joint effort to explore and learn baking.

We try to ensure that both of us try out a recipe before we post it, but there are occasions where we post individual recipes, tried and tested by either one of us. The format of the posts remains the same though. Though we generally aim at trying out a recipe

And where do you get your recipes from?

The world wide web is a great resource. As are some cook books. So we will depend on these two resources- at least to begin with. At the moment we are not advanced enough to invent our own recipes, but may be in time we will be.

For each recipe that we select and try out, we will clearly mention where it was sourced out from and if a link is available, mention that as well. We are not into plagiarism.

That sounds good. How often can we see new posts here?

We dont really have a schedule or a monthly target. We post whenever we can. While we realise that doesnt sound very impressive, we know you will understand that we are involved with a multitude of other things in our lives and time is always in short supply. Though we would love to cook and blog and cook some more, sadly a)we don’t get paid for it and b) we do have our weight to consider.

So come back again in a couple of days and check out what we have dished out!

PS: In case you feel like writing in to us, you can do so at bakingbuddies2008@gmail.com