From the Author : It was my first experience in 1997 of writing book (Recipes Delight) on a subject I love the most that is cooking. It was the wholehearted support of my near and dear ones and the passion for cooking that led me to complete the book. I sincerely thank all my readers for their overwhelming response and encouragement over the past few years which led me to prepare website on recipes.

There after I did make an effort to accede to the requests of my readers to publish the next edition of the book both in English and Marathi. Here is the first edition in English. I hope my readers will enjoy browsing through the same as well. Marathi version will follow soon. All the recipes covered have been based on my personal experience in cooking of around 40 plus years and the extensive travel I have undertaken so far domestically and worldwide.

The contents of this book are extensive on various veg. recipes of soups, snacks, curries, vegetables, pickles, chutneys, main courses, rice preparation, breads, Desserts etc. In India we have a lot of variety of rice preparations and Indian bread preparations. I have tried to cover maximum varieties in these preparations.

There are many who have contributed in realizing this dream come true. Most important of all are my mother and mother-in-law from whom I have learnt the most in my cooking. I cannot forget my family who helped me a lot in achieving this in prescribed schedule. My sincere thanks to everyone for supporting me in this mammoth task. Special thanks to my readers whose encouragement was very important and kept me motivating in improving the contents further. I sincerely hope you all like the contents and the presentation in the book.

** Mrs. Shruti Goswami **