Recipes

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

I like cooking, I really do. It can be peaceful when you do it for yourself or hectic when you are cooking for a party. Either way, it is creative and that can be satisfying.

I suppose I have about a yard of cookery books and I shall never cook all the recipes within them in this world or the next. Same goes for the friends' houses that I have visited. You seem to buy recipe books for the few meals that attract you.

But then there is the internet and the recipes on there are often amazing. The BBC TV food is simply brilliant.

Cooking should be simple and many achieve it. However, Madhur Jaffrey seems to want loads of various spices to make her dishes. I have always wondered if the dish would be much different if I left two or three out.

But then you move on to sauces and these can be wonderful. However, you do have to question the meal where the main body consists of 2 or 3 main ingredients and the sauce requires 17 or more combined together over the course of two hours. I reckon this sauce business, divine as it can be, is simply self-indulgence.

Yeah the simplest recipes are the best.