The other day I was looking for a recipe for a pork loin that I had in my fridge. The book I grabbed is one I grab often, well at least to look at pictures... So I took this cookbook of a well known TV personality, we will call her Schmarta, yeah that is it, Schmarta as to not offend. I looked in the index for a recipe for pork loin wrapped in bacon. Armed with the page number I went to that page, but that page was in the vegetable section and not for my pork. I checked it twice and even had someone else look at it. The page number listed in the index was wrong. I moved about 50 pages forward to find the pork section and sadly my recipe was no where to be found. Now there was a similar one but it was pancetta not bacon, NO DEAL SCHMARTA!
It got me thinking, how many times have I been even adventurous enough to open a cook book let alone try to recreate what my idols create every day in print and on television? How many times am I actually successful at following these instructions? Are my failures the result of bad recipes, bad editing or is it, god forbid, ME?
So here I am your novice cook, in my novice kitchen testing recipes from those who dare to share. After spending too much time looking at those cook books and watching those shows on Food TV I am finally happy to announce that I will be testing to see if what you see and read can actually be accomplished by your average house hold variety chef. Hoping for more success over failure, but my loss will be your gain.
Cheers,
Cenzo
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