I enjoy cooking and I like to think I’m rather good at it, I’ve never made myself or anybody else sick yet! I’m always looking to try new taste experiences so I like to watch cookery shows on TV to get some hints and tips. I wouldn’t necessarily cook it myself first off but track some recipes down online or in some cookery books so I can get to know about the dish before I get stuck in.
I take a couple of food magazines too, the ones I continue to get are the ones that test their recipes a couple of times before they publish them. Once upon a time I tried to make a celebrity chef’s ice cream from a recipe I cut out of a magazine, I’m positive I followed the recipe correctly but I ended up with something like vanilla scrambled egg in milk. Even the dog refused to eat it, and I’ve seen her eat some disgusting things.
If there’s something I like the look of I sometimes like to try it out from a takeaway. It’s an interesting way of finding out what a dish is supposed to taste like and once you’ve tasted it then you can put your own take on it if there is anything you don’t like about it. Having Chinese or Indian takeaway food from the local shop means you have the opportunity to taste the exotic flavours of the east without moving further than your phone. When they started it used to be the case that most takeaways would offer a few different types of meat in a few pre-prepared sauces which were kept hot all day and night and the main ingredients were salt and sugar. Today, now that diners’ tastes are more refined takeaways are trying to compete with their dine in competitors for both quality and flavour. When I lived in Nottingham takeaway food was something I loved, the food was really good when I never had time to get to the supermarket to buy food. Rather than get bored of eating the same thing every few days I made sure I ordered a different thing each time and from a selection of the Indian and Chinese takeaway Nottingham had to offer.
