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It's been a while since I've done one of these, blog thingies. I've been thinking about doing something with food for a while. Let's be honest everyone loves food, it looks good, it tastes good and if it's done well it makes you feel good while eating it. So writing about my adventures with food seems like a win win to me. I get to make and eat some fantastic food, and then I get to share (see tease and taunt) you with my creations. So what makes my witterings and ramblings and better than the numerous foodie blogs out there? Well lets play it straight, I'm not writing to say I'm some great gods gift to cooking and all things food, I leave that to the likes of Gordon Ramsey, Jamie Oliver and the numerous 'famous' chefs and cooks you find on the TV. I'm just me. What can I tell you about me?
I'm British, born and raised in the South East of the UK to an English mother and a Scottish father. My maternal grandmother was the personal cook to the Queens Council of Shanghai and my uncle was a Chef in the Royal Marines. I started 'cooking' from the moment I could comfortably see over the edge of the table and cut out pastry shapes (so about 3 years). My mother doesn't rate herself as a cook, she says I've got basic meat and two veg in me, but don't ask me about seasoning. She may not have been the best, but everything we ate growing up was made from scratch. Even baby food. My grandmother was a mine of information on all manner of baking growing up and was a huge encouragement when on leaving school I opted to go to catering college and train as a chef.
I've worked in numerous kitchens over the years and while I no longer cook commercially due to ill health, I still enjoy creating and playing in my own kitchen at home.
I have a love of recipe books, I may not necessarily follow recipes, but I do like to look at the photos and then make my own version of what they portray. You could say I'm a bit of a mad scientist.
I love my slow cooker. In my opinion its one of the greatest creations.
I have a serious dislike of processed food, why would anyone fork out a small fortune on a chemical filled ready meal, when you have such an abundance of fresh food readily available these days. As consumers we are so spoilt for choice in the variety of foods that are available, that I find it criminal that there are still people who lack the basic cooking skills to create a single meal. If there is one thing I champion it's teaching kids to cook. I don't care who teaches them, home or school, but every child should learn to cook.
I'm currently waiting (5 years and counting) for a kidney transplant. For the most part I'm reasonably fit, although my renal dietitian has put me on a low potassium, low sodium, low fat diet. Yeah the day I was given my diet book was a peach, a long list of foods I couldn't eat and a page at the back of things I could. Needless to say I've spent the past 5 years altering my old favourites to lessen the fat, sodium and potassium content. Gone are the days of munching bananas in the morning, but there are so many other great fruits and vegetables out there that I overlooked before. Now I feel that I eat better than I ever did before and everything (in my opinion) tastes better too!
It's been a while since I've done one of these, blog thingies. I've been thinking about doing something with food for a while. Let's be honest everyone loves food, it looks good, it tastes good and if it's done well it makes you feel good while eating it. So writing about my adventures with food seems like a win win to me. I get to make and eat some fantastic food, and then I get to share (see tease and taunt) you with my creations. So what makes my witterings and ramblings and better than the numerous foodie blogs out there? Well lets play it straight, I'm not writing to say I'm some great gods gift to cooking and all things food, I leave that to the likes of Gordon Ramsey, Jamie Oliver and the numerous 'famous' chefs and cooks you find on the TV. I'm just me. What can I tell you about me?
I'm British, born and raised in the South East of the UK to an English mother and a Scottish father. My maternal grandmother was the personal cook to the Queens Council of Shanghai and my uncle was a Chef in the Royal Marines. I started 'cooking' from the moment I could comfortably see over the edge of the table and cut out pastry shapes (so about 3 years). My mother doesn't rate herself as a cook, she says I've got basic meat and two veg in me, but don't ask me about seasoning. She may not have been the best, but everything we ate growing up was made from scratch. Even baby food. My grandmother was a mine of information on all manner of baking growing up and was a huge encouragement when on leaving school I opted to go to catering college and train as a chef.
I've worked in numerous kitchens over the years and while I no longer cook commercially due to ill health, I still enjoy creating and playing in my own kitchen at home.
I have a love of recipe books, I may not necessarily follow recipes, but I do like to look at the photos and then make my own version of what they portray. You could say I'm a bit of a mad scientist.
I love my slow cooker. In my opinion its one of the greatest creations.
I have a serious dislike of processed food, why would anyone fork out a small fortune on a chemical filled ready meal, when you have such an abundance of fresh food readily available these days. As consumers we are so spoilt for choice in the variety of foods that are available, that I find it criminal that there are still people who lack the basic cooking skills to create a single meal. If there is one thing I champion it's teaching kids to cook. I don't care who teaches them, home or school, but every child should learn to cook.
I'm currently waiting (5 years and counting) for a kidney transplant. For the most part I'm reasonably fit, although my renal dietitian has put me on a low potassium, low sodium, low fat diet. Yeah the day I was given my diet book was a peach, a long list of foods I couldn't eat and a page at the back of things I could. Needless to say I've spent the past 5 years altering my old favourites to lessen the fat, sodium and potassium content. Gone are the days of munching bananas in the morning, but there are so many other great fruits and vegetables out there that I overlooked before. Now I feel that I eat better than I ever did before and everything (in my opinion) tastes better too!
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