Got home from work last night, all raring to go and then promptly watched tv while my Mum presented me with a risotto. Not a good start to my cooking revolution. She really trumped my lack of cooking by not only making a risotto but a pie and stock. Oops. My first task is to work out what I am going to cook first….. I need a recipe that I will stick to, and by stick to I don’t mean go all creative and do my own thing, I mean actually pay attention and not remove ingredients that I don’t like (nutmeg, ginger, coriander, cinnamon, five spice, the list goes on and on). I’m not ever going to be able to cook off the top of my head if I don’t start establishing what I am crap at and what I am really crap at and to work that out I need to teach myself the basics. As that wise, wise lady Julie Andrews once sang “let’s start at the very beginning, it’s a very good place to start”, and to me, the beginning is Delia. I have the full copy of How to Cook that I bought last year when I had one of these “must cook more” moments, I hasten to add that while that was a moment, this is a definite life plan. Promise. So. Step 1 – find appropriate Delia recipe that won’t scare me and yet still feel like I have done something new, which shouldn’t be hard as my cooking experience is extremely limited.
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