Can’t Think What To Cook For Your Next Meal?
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011I love to cook and I’m told I’m pretty good at it, I’ve never poisoned myself or anybody else yet! I’m always willing to try new taste experiences so I like to view cookery shows on TV to get some hints and tips. I wouldn’t always cook it myself right away but hunt 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. In times past I’ve tried to cook something like ice cream from a recipe I read in a magazine, I’m positive I followed the recipe faithfully but I ended up with something like vanilla scrambled egg in milk. Even the dog turned her nose up at it.
If there’s anything I like the look of I will sometimes try it out from a takeaway. It’s a fun way of finding out what a dish is supposed to taste like and once you’ve tried it then you can put your own slant on it if there is anything you don’t like about it. Having Chinese or Indian takeaway meals from a local shop means you’ve got the chance to taste the exotic flavours of the east without going any 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 consumers’ tastes are more refined and they expect better quality takeaways are trying to compete with their dine-in cousins for both quality and flavour. When I stayed in Nottingham takeaway food was something I really enjoyed, the food was good when I never had time to get to the supermarket to buy my own. 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.
