Been Awhile

It's been awhile since I lasted posted. Life just got in the way for good long time and well I kinda forgot I had this blog. I'm not sure if anyone is reading anything of this but hey if you are thanks. I actually thought of this blog again after seeing the movie "Juile and Juila". It's based on a true story of this chic Juile who starts this blog about cooking her way through Juila Childs cookbook in a years time. I walked away from the movie wanting to cook something. I sorta think of myself as a chef/cook even though I dropped out of culinary school after only a few months. It was way to stressfull and high pressure. I prefer to take my time and savor what I am cooking not feel rushed through it and besides I gained about 15lbs during this time thanks to all the rich, calorie filled dishes we made. The thing about going to culinary school or at least the one I went to you have to eat what you cook and let me tell you alot of what we cooked had tons of butter, and well fat. Basically all the bad stuff that makes food so damm good. Although I have found that butter isn't all that bad for you as long as you don't consume it in mass quanities. And yes I mean REAL butter not that fake tub stuff that has an ingredient list I can't even begin to pronounce. Just look at one 1 day and see for yourself. Anyway watching the movie got me in a creative mood. I have all these ideas for recipes running through my head. I love to cook and from what I am told it's something I am good at. I love to just come up with something on the spur of the moment. Sometimes it comes from a recipe I've done before and I just do a variation on it or I just come up with something completly new. Cooking for me is thrapy for me. It's a cauthatic experience and allows me to let loose and not think about anything except the meal that is to come. Right now I am trying to develope a recipe for Hawaian chicken. It's based on a dish I had at a resturant that was out of this world good. I am thinking if I add orange juice to the pinapple juice for the marinade it will come out good. Because I am finding that the pinapple juice alone doesn't add enough flavor to it. It needs an extra kick and I am thinking orange juice will do the trick. We shall see. I plan to make it again this week. I am also working on a herb chicken dish that uses fresh herbs and olive oil and again that is based on a dish I had. The other day I made a dill salmon dish with rainbow fennel salad with a homemade version of Honey Dijion Mustard Vingeratte. Anyway like I said my head is filled with ideas. I let you know how some of them turn out.

Jamie