Mission Statement

I was driving home and I realized I did not express this blog the best way I should have. And it comes to one simple idea.

I HATE RECIPES!!!

I really do! Recipes are like putting together a bike, but if you had to make a bike, you wouldn't know what to do!  I want to teach techniques and methods, and a few ideas, but I want my readers to think... "mmm I want braised short ribs with a port reduction sauce" and just DO IT! Because the title alone in a dish IS THE "RECIPE"

I want people to read this blog and take away a method and remember how simple cooking really is.  Once you understand how and why, there isn't any reason to say "There is nothing to make in my kitchen"  Just the other day my Mom was making meat loaf and I decided to make a sauce.  So I understand what kind of sauce goes best of meatloaf.  So I made a tomato base sauce, since the acid and beef are awesome, I made it spicy, because we had chiptole, and through the method of reducing down the tomato sauce, controlling the heat with acid and sweetness, I created a sauce from method and idea rather than dictating some gospel from a book.

So

Learn

Understand

And

COOK!

I know of a few books that make this principle clearer and if you want to read here are my top three...