There is always a beginning

From a young age like most I showed a fasination with food, preparation and cooking of it. It began with simple creations such as pancakes, mince pies and the basic cheese on toast sort of thing! As I grew my interest in reading cook books and watching cooking show became a defining part of my home life! My insperations came from Nigella Lawson and her decadent desserts and flavousome meals, The CWA cook books were among my favourite to read with the simple but delicious recipes. But biggest insperations of all were my Mother & Grandmother both of whom involved me from an early age in cooking. With my mother I remember making mince pies at christmas and  pancakes on the weekend and trying to guess what shape they formed in fry pan. With my Grandmother I remember making rock cakes and  sponge cakes. Both of these memories are from around seven to eight years old.

Though over the years I have had some fantastic out comes  in the kitchen I have also had some horrible experiences. Having such a love for cooking I choose to follow that path with my working career studing at a cooking school and completing a traineeship in hospitality. While completing my traineeship I foun, though I have keen intrests in the kitchen I also have a skill for injury and accidents causing many cuts, burns, spills, breakages and the  shame of setting two kitchens on fire. You may gasp and think heck never hire this one but luckly with age I have gained some  in understanding that I take my time to ensure these events that seem to follow me don't happen anymore.

Even though I have taken a few steps away from the cooking career I still take great pride in cooking for family and friends such specialty dishes include lasanger, lamb and vegetable stew, poached chicken curry(thanks to my Mum), risotto, chocolate self saucing pudding, tea cakes, smoothies and many more. These are beautiful dishes but for  a while now I have wanted to step outside my comfort zone and start experementing with flavours, different meats, different methods of cooking. So I invite you to join me in my journey to create some masterpieces and with out a doubt some horrors!

BON APPETIT