Cooking

I have always liked cooking.  I love food and I love eating a variety of things and tire of the same meal over and over.  Top Chef is one of my all time favorite shows.  I wish I had the skills to make the dishes that I see on TV.  When I'm looking for something new to make, I usually use allrecipes.com to search out new ideas.  These are usually family friendly recipes that are easy to make.  I like it because it gives other members the opportunity to critique recipes and give advice on how to improve them or things not to do. 

Recently though, I have found a new site that I am obsessed with.  It is called cookstr.com.  These recipes are more challenging and are posted by real chefs.  It requires a more delicate palate (for lack of a better phrase) but there are still kid friendly options.  In fact, you can sort the recipes in all kinds of ways - from easy to challenging cooking, inexpensive or expensive recipes, which meal or course you're cooking for, or even the mood you're in.  I love this sight!

Yesterday I printed out directions for dessert.  It was a fig, orange carmel, marscapone dessert and it was amazing!  Jason loved it (Ella didn't), even though I was pretty sure he wouldn't and I would be eating this alone.  It was so different and so easy to make that I'm thinking of doing it again tonight.  I also found a very simple spaghetti sauce that is the best sauce I've ever had.  I seriously can't get enough.  I don't even like spaghetti that much but I down this meal at least once a week.  This site is really fine-tuning my moderate cooking level.  Pretty soon I'll be an expert chef!!