Cookin' Up Nothing

Can anyone cook anymore?

Its  a question that came to mind after watching dozens and dozens of one minute videos of people preparing food.

But that was not what triggered it. It was the juxtaposition of food videos and posts combined with the monumental pile of cook books I had to sort through about a month back. After tossing an easy two hundred to the "Unbuyable bin" it struck me. Why, if there are so many cook videos, is there no one out there buying the books to go with it. You know, the wireless, learn the basics version.

Or better yet, does anyone actually make the stuff they see? I'm sure some blogger somewhere has brought this up, but after seeing clip after clip roll by my eye balls, I'm left wondering if we're so visually food obsessed, that we've given up on making it?

There are t.v shows too. Every fucker can put out a cook book, and recipes (like this fucker writing it). But does anyone pick up the (kitchen utensil of choice) and actually make it? And I feel like its coming from my generation and the creepers underneath me. We satisfy our visual lust for good food and then go back to rayman noodles until we've saved enough bucks up to shell out for something exotic and fancy.

But I have been inundated with food for years now and to be fare, I've only really just started taking on cooking, but its been a revelation. I want that food I crave? Why don't I make it? I come from a long line of monkey people who have figured out shit way more difficult than a Cesar salad dressing or home made mac and freakin' cheese!

I am spending the next four months cooking as part of chipping in. But why don't we all just do it? Instead of settling for less. Settling for cheep salted noodles at the end of every night, learn how to change it to fit your budget and your taste buds.

Start by getting a basic cook book and googling when you're not sure how to do something. Use these tools that are now so freely at our disposal to better us.

Also, so for the next four months I'm going to try and cook a dinner almost every night, and  a lunch, so I've got to make meal plans. I'm really going to try and source locally when I'm in Scotland, to support the neighbors and what not. There should be postings about that stuff coming and how its going to all work out. Hopefully its not a huge disaster :D

This, among many other books, is the book to help me :) Looking forwards to its arrival.