"The Cooks Journal" - Where it all began...

Monday 10 January 2011

I've never been someone who couldn't cook, but I was always unmotivated and lacking in inspiration. But somewhere along the way I've found a passion for it! I don't know how or why, but all of a sudden I just love to cook, I find out peaceful and exciting and I am always on the look out for new recipes to try out and cant wait to tell people about it!

When I got DVD vouchers from my brother for Christmas, I was absolutely lost for what to get as I have so many movies even I find myself buying doubles because I just cant keep track. And then, I just happened to glance to once side as I headed for yet another aisle, and I spotted Jamie Oliver! Not "the" Jamie Oliver, I'm sad to say, but his DVDs. There was Ministry of Food in the UK - that was quickly tucked under one arm, as I'd seen some of this on TV and really wanted to see it all the way through. Then I spotted the US Road Trip which I mistook for the Ministry of Food he did there, but that's turned out to be very interesting! And there was Italian. I love Italian!!! And so, it turns out, does Jamie! Seems Italian is what inspires him - ahhh, kindred spirits :D

I've always thought, if you cant cook Italian, you just cant cook lol Of course, this isn't true per se, but it speaks to my love of Italian food!

Watching the DVDs, I couldn't feel it in my bones, the inspiration was setting in and I was itching to get in the kitchen! I may have a tiny little kitchen and broken saucepans, but dammit I can still cook!!!

I made the meatballs Jamie teaches in Ministry of Food, and that came out pretty damn good, if I say so myself! Even cold the next morning! lol

I tried to make a tomato spaghetti dish he made too, but that was a dismal failure. I needed his cook book.

While on holiday last week, I found what I thought was a cook book, but it was a magazine that was full, mostly, of readers recipes. Damn, wasted money on a book with ingredients I'll never use :s

Then, while posting some postcards, I spotted a book set of Jamie Oliver cook books! Jamie At Home and...... THE MINISTRY OF FOOD!!!

So last night was the aforementioned disastrous tomato spaghetti, only this time it wasn't a disaster it was a screaming success!!!

And tonight? Well, I don't know... we'll have to see what inspires ;)