I really enjoy cooking, probably because I really love eating. My mom repeatedly refuses to make a cookbook for me, but she does send me pictures of what she makes all the time. I wanted to compile some of the things that I've made, along with some very basic instructions.
Typically when I look at a recipe, I tend to ignore measurements and cooking times. Instead, I just sorta taste it repeatedly while cooking and add until it tastes "right". In that same spirit, I don't think any of these recipes will have measurements or times either!
My favorite cookbook right now is Samin Nosrat's Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, which really goes into some of the principles of cooking. Check it out!
If I do get more fancy in the future, I'll break this up into even more regional subdivisions, but for now, Western and Eastern is enough!
Almost all of the recipes that I post on here are a result of me taking some recipe I found online, and adapting it slightly to make it work better for myself. This helps me because I can have a centralized hub for the things that I have had experience in cooking, and I get to skip the long, often-bloated websites from others. However, there are a few recipes that I have no way of improving on, either because the original is already so thorough that I couldn't really replicate it without just copying verbatim, or because of a particularly elegant way of describing the cooking process. For those, I will just provide the links below!
I don't like alcohol, but I do like complexity. What to do, what to do...