Ever since I was little, I have always been obsessed with food and would never shy away from trying new things. I used to hover around the kitchen as a kid and help out where I could, no matter how unproductive my assistance was.
My obsession grew pretty quickly from the age of about 14 when I began baking for school sports games. From there, I became interested in more savoury cooking and would regularly take the reins making dinner for my family. For a solid few years, the bulk of presents I received for birthdays and Christmas were cookbooks, which led to my cookbook collection growing well above 100. I credit a lot of my initial learning of food to these cookbooks, which I would pour through whenever I wasn’t at school, playing sport or doing homework.
I have always been the type to become fixated on a task or learning everything there is to know about something. So when it came to food, any time I learnt something new, it just opened up a new door of everything I still didn’t know. This lead to more curiosity and more learning but somehow it never felt like a chore.
Ever since I started cooking, I have been waiting for the day where I get sick of it, and somehow, pretty much 10 years later now, I’m somehow still as passionate as the day I started.
As much as I love to learn, I love to teach and inspire. So, the goal for this space, is to share the recipes which I have created while cooking for friends and family, which I hope can become apart of the meals you cook for yours.
There really isn’t a food or facet of cooking that I don’t enjoy (except liquorice and cake decorating), so my hope is to share recipes inspired by different cuisines, different styles of cooking, over varying complexities and courses; ones with 2 ingredients and ones with 20+. I hope that I can show you something you might not have seen before, or even to help simplify food and make you see it in a different way.
I also want to get into the nitty gritty technical stuff like the chemistry of baking, how and why we need to temper chocolate, and how to make a whole bunch of stuff from scratch like different types of doughs, curry pastes, ice creams, and so on and so forth, but we’re only early days so hopefully that’s all to come. 🙂
So thank you for being here and reading my story and I hope in return that I can teach you some cool things and help inspire you to try something new.
