Oh thank you so much! How nice of you. You're welcome! And of course, with you, all our Tattlers friends
I'm not a professional cook in any way, but I've learned to cook with love for my children (all grown up now) and family and friends. I think love is the main ingredient,but not love for food or cooking, but for the ones you are preparing it for. Because you want to make them happy and stay healthy and look after them.
Once one of my daughters organized an important one week seminar for people coming from many parts of the world and I was requested to cook meals. I had never cooked for 15 people twice a day before and I wanted to keep it fresh, healthy, nourishing, aboundant and tasty and.... easy to digest!
It was a success! They even found a surname for me: Annapurna: the hindu goddess of nourishment! ahahaha. Well, I must say I don't know where I found the strength - and the gout - to do it, but I enjoyed every moment of it.
So, yes, you are all welcome at my table.
Food and love go hand in hand. There is no nourishing or joy in food if it is not prepared with love.
The whole process is important to me about cooking.
I grow a lot myself. I cook my own tomatoes.
Sometimes I bake sourdough bread. Not often, I need to watch my weight.
Choosing quality foods is just as important to me. The meat is from local farms, often from animals that live outside. I also buy milk on farms, cook it myself and store it in glass bottles, make yogurt and fresh cheese from fermented milk. I make apple cider vinegar myself.
I also collect herbs for syrups from which we make juice (elderberry, lemon balm and nettle). We produce our own sausages and dried meat (bacon, prosciutto). I pickle my own or purchased vegetables (peppers, cucumbers, cabbage). I also make jams that we like to eat (currants, apricots, rose hips). These are not large quantities, but enough for my small family. All these jobs require a lot of time and work. And everything is thick in the end.
We know exactly what we eat, where it comes from and how it is prepared.
And yes, I did not write all this to brag, but to affirm the importance of a healthy diet and love for those you want to feed.
Love is the key, not survival.
When traveling, we usually look for local restaurants with authentic cuisine.
If I want to cook a dish that is not from our environment, I thoroughly study the recipes. So I reviewed dozens of videos and read dozens of recipes for pasta ala Carbonara or Hungarian Doboš cake.
I have always been repulsed by people who eat just to eat, without attaching importance to food or appreciating the effort of the chef.
For the above reasons, I don’t know why I would watch Dana Cooking with Frozen Groceries from the Supermarket. Waste of time.
On Repeat said:
I want to stay at your place and experience your hospitality! I prepare fresh, abundant food and obviously Asian inspired recipes. You, my friend, are an inspiration. I would starve at the shiteau. The small restuarant which @billybud has sussed out would be the only place I could eat. I am not a food snob, just a home cook, but I do know about nutrition, taste and freshness of product - everything lacking in the shiteau kitchen.
I would also starve at the shiteau.
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