First of all...welcome! (*sighs*, glad we got that out of the way!)
I am assuming you were intrigued by my title...well, sadly it is not a major secret, hope I have not put you off already!
Now, you may wonder why would someone would want to write about food and how to make delicious meals when you can get a cook book, or look on the internet or go to local chinese and order your usual 'grease in a container' chow mein!
Well until recently, I would wonder the same! I have noticed, well it's more of an assumption more than anything, that everyone has an affinity to something that really they don't really share with everyone else, like collecting stamps and shiny things or being part of a particular club or team...well I would like to think you know where I am going with this! No?
What I mean is you must have something that you like but are too embarrassed to share with everyone else, like your friends, or even something that interests you that you prefer to keep to yourself. Well to me that something is food.
Oh by the way, I am Tom, i am a 21 year old, recently graduated from university, currently working part time and preparing myself both mentally and emotionally to life without that nice student loan.
I work as a football coach for Chelsea FC, and as part of my job I encourage (or attempt to!) kids indirectly to lead a healthy lifestyle (well some are as young as 5, so confiscating and secretly munching their illegal contraband, such as sweets and any type of tempting confectionary, are more or less the same right?
Well lets get to the point...I love food, i love watching cookery shows, I love watching people cook and experiment with the weird and wonderful as well as the most common and available ingredients. I have no shame in admiting this, although mostly everyone I know I either discovered this at our local pub quiz a while back or at my 'tasty' regular Facebook posts!
I have had this affinity since I was very young because cooking just seemed...fun i guess. A particular memory is first watching Ready, Steady, Cook and seeing Ainsley Harriott dancing around with his pan and showing off his skills, and such scenes sort of had me hooked on the notion of how fun cooking can be!
(Although, I know many of you view cooking and making simple food as an EFFORT OR CHORE !) I partially agree with this...cooking can seem tiresome when you have spent the day working or doing something!
But, I have been inspired by growing up with my mum's and my abuela's (Spanish for nan, I am spanish afterall!...well you werent to know!) food...which can be easily described as hearty, homely and comfy food...that may leave you feeling more full-boardering-on-falling-asleep instead of that bloated-feeling! (We have all felt like this...Sunday roasts ring a bell!...Best solution for insomnia in my opinion!)
So this blog, in essence, is to, encourage, more than inspire, you to give cooking in general a go,try out some of the things I try out at home (I don't really like labouring over meals that take over an hour to cook, so really what I put on here does take too long!) as well as to help you scour around for cheap but quality ingredients (as I know that most of us are broke most of the time!...especially whilst being a student!)
With each post/ recipe I will try (emphasis on TRY!! as I do have a life outside of this and I do not like my food to get cold, sorry!) and put an pic of my own finished attempt (so you have something to work with)...Also before I go, just so you know all these recipes are inspired from watching others and recipes that have been tried and tested so they aren't completly original (copyright reasons...can a recipe be copywritten? Not entirely sure, I have seen weirder things happen!) But please, contrary of what they say on tv,
'What you read here has been done by a professional (home) cook so try this at home! (Bit of humour there, deliberate comedy is not my strong point)
Until next time, as they say in Spain, 'Que aproveches!'
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