This Mumbai food blogger doodles her recipes!

When food blogger Rushina Ghildiyalrsquos husband gifted her a smart phone she loved a particular app in it which allowed people to note their memos by doodling And then she had her Eureka moment Using the app to give a visual effect to some fun recipes Ghildiyal has just launched Foodles mdash where she creates new recipes along with doodles each of which tell a story A foodle recipe of Grilled Garlic Grapes with chillies and garnished with baby fenugreek leavesu00a0u00a0 ldquoI had learnt animation in school The phone that my husband gifted me came with a stylus that allowed me to draw cut and paste objects and look at a possible marriage of food and technology Being a foodie I thought of trying something creative with food I doodled a watermelon salad and put it on my blog which everyone liked Thus was born Foodlesrdquo says Ghilidayal who also owns the APB Cook Studio The concept of food doodling of course is not new But what makes Ghildiyalrsquos foodles unique is the simplicity of the recipes with the storyboard doodles ldquoI have deliberately tried to keep all my illustrations and recipes simple to allow people to understand how simple they could be to cook and how delicious it could be to eat at the same time Even a novice can cook the dishes after seeing the foodlesrdquo says the blogger Food blogger Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal Ghildiyal adds her own dash of creativity to her recipes by adding or tweaking ingredients ldquoI was creating a recipe for a friend who wanted a dish that looked purple So I decided to make a cool recipe that could go with his personality and thought about grapes I doodled this recipe of Grilled Garlic Grapes where the grapes are grilled with chillies and garlic and garnished with baby fenugreek leaves It is a sweetsavoury dish And yes it was a hitrdquo laughs Ghildiyal But how do people get access to foodles ldquoI plan to put up the foodles on my food blog named Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal I have also decided to create a booklet of my foodles and sell it from my cookstudiordquo she says A foodle of Cinnamon Chicken Rub To celebrate the launch of her foodles which also coincides with the first birthday of her cook studio Ghildiyal is planning a sitdown meal for 12 people on August 18 ldquoI plan to cook a meal using 12 local ingredients This will be a threecourse meal for 12 people which I plan to sell for Rs 1200 per person The money raised from this will go to a charity close to my heartrdquo she says The blogger who also conducts seasonal food walks to introduce people to different food cultures in Mumbai plans to increase the frequency of these educational walks ldquoI also do Indian homecooking where I take people who are new to Mumbai on walks across our markets to familiarise them with the cityrsquos markets I then bring them back to my studio and give them cooking tipsrdquo says Ghildiyal So whatrsquos next we ask ldquoThe first of my foodles have been mostly snacks and starters I now plan to come up with foodles of Italian and Chinese dishes As of now this is purely a hobby so I am not really looking at making my foodles a commercially viable businessrdquo she signs off