I used to be a happy cook. And I say used to be because that was back in the day when there were still kids living at my house and I had people to cook for ;) Nowadays I still cook for myself but you know how it goes with for example Lasagna... you just can't make a 1 person portion so I end up eating the same for 3 days or so.
Have to say: I don't really like that :p But since I am just starting up a household of my own I still don't have a freezer which kind of limits my possibilities. I wouldn't mind cooking up a batch of Lasagna or Chili con Carne and freeze at least 2 portions of it...the smallest amounts of food I cook are based on a 3 person household. And the way Chi eats it would probably be just 2 :D
I know I promised recipes. I think I have a whole lot of them somewhere, maybe on my External HardDisk if I didn't throw them away during the divorce-rage :p In the restaurant we used to have cooking workshops and I always wrote the recipes for them, nicely illustrated and everything. At one point I even thought of bundling them into a cook book! Never happened of course...
All the recipes are written in Dutch though, so I'd have to do a lot of translating and, for my American readers: a lot of converting! So they will appear here in English, with both the metric and American measurements. I have done some shopping in Chicago but usually for fun things to bring home like Liquid Smoke and stuff like that. So I'd have to talk to Chi also to see if the ingredients we use here can also be easily bought in the USA, and for some: what would the names be.
But I really promise to look into that this week and pass the ingredients by Chi this weekend so I can start posting recipes. And I'll also try to take pics of food I made and post them too. I have to warn you all though: in my kitchen cooking isn't an exact science, one of the main ingredients in all recipes is LOVE and I use a lot of pinches and little bits of this and that ;) And a lot of my cooking is quite basic...but tasty! Oh, and Italian :')
Last time I was in Chicago Chi gave me a Polish cook book and I am looking into that too, and I have a lot of Indonesian and Surinam recipes too.
So now I make a new promise: starting next week I will post some of my biggest successes, on a separate page, with pictures! I hope you'll enjoy them...
And now I have to go grocery shopping. I kinda feel like experimenting today so I think I'll try to make Golabki (cabbage rolls) today, with mushroom sauce, from Chi's cook book. I know he really likes them and since the way to a man's heart goes through his stomach I guess I better learn to make them good ;)
Have a nice day, cooking and shopping and whatnot...