Suck at Cooking? Myth Busted.

I know, it's fun, it's tongue in cheek entertainment and I enjoy watching it. However, I don't think there is a certain way that can be called "right" when it comes to cooking.

Cooking is an art and a very intimate, very personal sensory experience. I believer there is no "right" or "wrong" ways, there is only "this" or "that" way that people choose according to what their taste buds are telling them.

A lot of people are intimidated because they don't want to embarrass themselves by "being wrong", so they completely outsource the food preparation to, uh, the food industry or the restaurant industry. That's really tragic because they fail to realize that's a high price they can't afford to pay.

Certainly for professional chefs and cooks, there will be general expectations and guidelines of the food they are serving, but it is not so when you prepare food for yourself and your family.

Recipes are not mechanical manuals for you to follow to a Tee. They are to be adjusted, changed, modified to fit you, to please you! It is you who could say, this is not right for me, I don't like it, and not the other way around. Your palate is the judge and you are the ruler of it.

The more you allow yourself to know about food, the more comfortable you are to handle and prepare them, the more choices and control you'll have for your own and your planet's future.

Simple rules, accessible, approachable, sustainable ... that's my mission.