Going Live!

Right now, I’m actually eating a slice of New York cheesecake I made this weekend – first time ever, yummy!

So I love food and cooking. Correction, I have an obsession with food and cooking. I’m not sure where this comes from.  When at home, my mother and I normally converse over an open cookbook. I’m normally thinking about the night’s dinner at 11am.

My cookery obsession manifests itself in a number of ways:

1)      Reading cookbooks daily

2)      Watching as many cookery programmes as I can

3)      Spending way too much on random ingredients for really obscure recipes that I will never recreate

4)      Constant investment in cooking utensils

5)      Eating........a lot!

I also work, quite long days actually. I work in London, but live in Newark, so my door-to-door commute is about 1.5 hours. Work’s important to me, but not always conducive with a cooking obsession. Cooking after a long day’s work is hard!

To motivate me, I made a number of new year’s resolutions. These haven’t been going so well in recent weeks.

1)      Bake something new each week

2)      Cook something new each week

3)      Cook something old with a new recipe each week

So I thought, why not add a blog to that list? Maybe this will motivate me? Whilst I’m not sure anyone will be interested in anything I have to say, who knows, maybe I’ll surprise myself.

My idea of blogging was confirmed last night with an amazing meal with at my friends - @mindthegapLDN made the best leek and parmesan risotto, with bacon on top! He is a friend that I often ridicule (obviously, its well deserved), but I tell you ladies, you can’t beat a man who makes a good risotto!

If they’ll let me, my friends will definitely feature in my blog. Many of my friends are amazing cooks. This works a treat for me – I wonder if that’s subconsciously the basis of our friendships.

Let the blogging commence!