I’m off to a good start on my more adventurous cooking. I’ve been swooning over Forgotten Skills of Cooking. The book itself is gorgeous; gorgeous cover and layout and photography, beautiful quality, and a lovely purple silk ribbon attached to the spine for marking your place, if you can bear to put it down. I want to eat everything in the book, from the soup made from fresh greens to the layer cake with cream and jam for filling.
In addition to mouth-watering recipes, there’s a wealth of information on finding and harvesting local plants, seafood, mushrooms and what to do with them after you’ve foraged. I’d love to find a similar resource for this area; the information is mostly specific to Ireland and the neighboring regions. But the book is certainly giving me ideas, and the more I learn about traditional ways of eating, the less appeal anything packaged or served at a restaurant has.
I haven’t tried out any Greek recipes yet, but I have started doing fun things like carmelizing onions and roasting peppers, which are fairly quick and easy to do in batches and then you have a wealth of flavor to add to dishes. I’m also making my first batch of ranch dressing this week, since it’s our favorite but there’s always a major hunt to find a brand that isn’t full of sugar or chemicals and the kind that isn’t is pretty spendy. It’s fairly simple so I’m sure with a little trial and error I can hit a balance of ingredients we all like.
Cooking and eating real food is addictive, and I’m glad I’m making more time for it. If you’re bored with eating at home, trying picking up a new cookbook or try experimenting with making your own version of something you like to eat out. A little experimentation can lead to all kinds of culinary adventure.
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