i assume the talent either comes from my mom, or in reaction to my mom's cooking (depending on who you ask :-). dad cooks some, but he had a much longer commute when we were younger, so he didn't do much day-to-day cooking when i was growing up.
i think i have a rather different style of cooking than my brother - he's much more gourmet than i am. i'm a plain cook, not prone to measuring things, tending towards quick & easy food...
canning i started a couple of years ago, partly b/c it intrigued me, partly b/c i wanted jam-things i couldn't get in the store, partly b/c i found myself with a bunch of fruit (ok, and partly b/c a lot more people were baking bread, so i needed to do something new...). also, chutney is something that is hard to get here, especially anything other than mango (and i suspect my mango permutations are not much like the jars available at the supermarket), and i decided that the sweet-spicy-sour combination was one i like (over chicken, on bread, straight from the jar....). and i find it relatively easy, and lots of payback (i always have something i can bring as a hostess gift if i remember in time....)
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Re: Other complementary flavors....
Date: 2001-12-23 02:12 pm (UTC)i think i have a rather different style of cooking than my brother - he's much more gourmet than i am. i'm a plain cook, not prone to measuring things, tending towards quick & easy food...
canning i started a couple of years ago, partly b/c it intrigued me, partly b/c i wanted jam-things i couldn't get in the store, partly b/c i found myself with a bunch of fruit (ok, and partly b/c a lot more people were baking bread, so i needed to do something new...). also, chutney is something that is hard to get here, especially anything other than mango (and i suspect my mango permutations are not much like the jars available at the supermarket), and i decided that the sweet-spicy-sour combination was one i like (over chicken, on bread, straight from the jar....). and i find it relatively easy, and lots of payback (i always have something i can bring as a hostess gift if i remember in time....)