My Hobby
Cooking is one of my favorite pastime. When I was little I used to hang around at my Moms kitchen and assisting her whenever she cooks for events or parties. For me it was fun doing all the cutting and cleaning of ingredients.
I don’t have proper training aside from what I learn during elementary where we had cooking subjects. Most of the menus that I can prepare are from my Mom. I don’t like having cookbooks around so I’m only limited to the foods that I’m familiar to prepare. However I’ve become busy at work that I rarely do the cooking now and I’m starting to miss my hobby.
good eating
Many of my favorite dishes for the winter months are the traditional ones, for instance Shepherds Pie. This is a dish now often made with ground beef, but traditionally made with leftover roast lamb which has been put through the grinder attachment on your food processor, or a mincer. Also using leftover gravy, carrots and mashed potatoes (winter vegetables). The Shepherds Pie Recipe website has the old fashion way with tips on modernising it! As well a good source of other dishes from various cultures, based on the personal experiences of a world traveler and his wife, the latter of Italian ancestry so, of course another mine of recipes!