An appreciation for really good food - both homemade and restaurant fare - has been a part of my life as long as I can remember. My parents are both great cooks - my dad being the more experimental one who loves to delve into French and Italian cuisine while often making his own changes to the recipes (most of which improve them), and my mom being the one who makes the classics and can turn out a batch of impressively thin crepes with very little swearing involved.
I've been cooking for myself for a while now, but only recently have I really made an effort to try and expand my repertoire, branching out from the simple stir fries and grilled cheese sandwiches (and who could overlook the lovely radioactive orange of Kraft Dinner?) that formerly formed much of my personal recipe repository.
I've also vowed to expand my horizons when it comes to baking. Until my first foray into cheesecake, most of my sweet creations took the form of cookies. Mostly chocolate chip, but I'd also tried out gingerbread, shortbread, sugar cookies, and these truly amazing simple chocolate cookies that wound up looking surprisingly professional. Now I've added the aforementioned cheesecake to the mix - thus far only plain and strawberry, but I plan to work on chocolate as my next challenge.
So that's a quick overview of where I'm coming from - if I had to write myself a headline it would be 'Slight food snob searches for scintillating new recipes' or something equally alliterative.
Stay tuned for more missives from the kitchen, coming as soon as I upload the pictures of my latest triumph (just to tantalize you, the recipe was for a black bean and butternut squash chili).
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