I'm not a great cook but I'm actually trying now - since I'm at home and have four kids and a spouse who, though he will actually eat anything prefers good food. This is not actually a new idea of mine, I've tried this before. Once, I used a recipe on the back of a Stove Top Stuffing box and I think it asked for Asiago cheese but I only had parmesan so I used that instead. At one point I thought it smelled like dirty socks. I opened the oven and took a much bigger whiff - yep, it totally smelled like dirty socks. I honestly thought it couldn't possibly taste as bad as it smelled.
I served it. We only had three kids then. Geoff ate it. It was the worst thing I'd ever tasted. I didn't eat it, Ocean wouldn't eat it and neither would Ethan. Aaron was about a year and a half old and he stared at Geoff with a look of complete fascination. Geoff ate it - every bite. He then got up and left the house. I was thinking, gee, how nice. I was clearing plates and trying to think of what to throw together now. Geoff returned with Dairy Queen and all was forgiven; but that was still weird.
The point is, I've made some really bad food but I'm working on getting better. I have mainly been working with Gordon Ramsay's cooking at home. There is a problem with using this book and that of course is copyright law. I cannot print the recipes. I was trying to avoid this by getting another chef to put some recipes together but so far he has not given me anything so I'm working on my other connections.
The focus will be on weekly menu planning, fresh food and simplicity but yielding excellent results. I've done this for four weeks now and I'm pretty impressed so far - not only by the reduction of crap food in my pantry, but in the excellent food I've produced with fresh stuff. Even more thrilling, we've been saving money - stupid amounts of money by eating fresh and menu planning. I will put together some of that information in here as well. This is the introduction - everything else will be listed by meal :) Enjoy!
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