During the past four years I’ve been trying to decide if I want to blog about food or not. Back then I didn’t think it was glamorous enough, and as I was just starting to cook I kept asking myself: “Do I really have anything to show?” The answer in my head was “probably not!” So I didn’t, even though I did… yes, I know, women… What I mean is that I couldn’t help myself and posted some recipes (not more than 5 per year) that I considered worthy. Some of them I might export here, or just remake them and create completely new posts (yeah, stop cheating, lazy!). Why now?! …because I’m wiser? No, silly, because I realized that complicated is not necessarily more interesting (on the contrary) and “worthy” is like all things in life “in the eye of the reader”. Still I am not doing this for you, reader; I am doing it for me. HERE is all about the COOK and nothing else! I intend to keep it minimal with more photos and less words and maybe someday, who knows, I’ll upgrade to videos. Ideally I should post a new recipe each day, but I you know, I might take the weekend off. Expect to find recipes that require from you only the ability to find ingredients in the pantry and to keep your hands away from flames/ hot surfaces (I still need to work on that!). Also as my daily patience is quite limited and I do not want to waste it all in one place, I don’t spend more than 30-40 minutes in the kitchen. Cook healthy, low on fat, tasty, from scratch and in 30 minutes? Yeap, you can actually do that and without cutting corners with processed food. I just what to have fun and make some new friends
It’s breakfast time and french toast is a classic. Any kind of frozen or fresh berries works great with this recipe. Add your favorite syrup or honey and a little bit of melted butter! Top of the morning to ya!
Ideas for Christmas or New Year’s dinner party? Yes, please! I will be going to a pre- Christmas party this Saturday and this will be one of the dishes I will bring along. I am also making some delicious cheese pretzels and probably some gingerbread… Romanian parties are savage when it comes to the amount of food people bring and eat in 4 – 5 hours.
Or how I wish I make pesto. I remember spending a lot of time during my summer at my grandparents removing different shapes of leaves from stems for what felt like an eternity. After this little basil project here, I know for sure that it was in fact an eternity.
I was forced to cut my basil plant because temperatures in Alabama fell below freezing. Unfortunately I didn’t cut the whole thing (I…
What can I say? I bought too many chocolate candies for Halloween… and I was eating the leftovers like there was no tomorrow. Since, I still have one third of the bucket full of chocolate candy in the house; I think might be more of a troublemaker, then a problem solver.
I used to be PicktheCook, but now I am Culinary Epiphany. If you find it pretentious, you are reading it in a wrong way, it’s more of a “culinary epiphany… (cough)”. More of a: “Remember I made that recipe a while ago, I wonder what ingredients I used and how I did it…” That is probably the most frequent “culinary epiphany” I have, realizing that I completely forgot how I cooked some…
I am really having fun with these recipe templates, in case it was not obvious already. I’ve got nothing insightful else to say on this gloomy Monday, so I’ll open a bottle of red wine and continue reading Marco Polo’s Adventures until my eye start itching. I might be needing vision glasses, thank you countless nights spent starring into Excel and RStudio.
Do not worry, I’ve done this before which kinda of makes me a pro, right?
I bought the basil plant in the first photo below (it was much-much smaller) from a grocery store in April. I used some of it during that month, but not too much because I really liked the way it looked in the kitchen window. May came and as I was getting ready to travel to Europe I realized I needed to do something with my…
I baked this banana bread for a friend. Honestly, it was for a friend, but as I am preparing this blog post, I really wish I made one for myself as well. No worries, I still have half a bucket of candies from Halloween.
From the category recipes for lazy people, like myself. It really one of my favorite things to cook because it only takes 10 minutes to prepare everything and shove into the oven. You can go about your business as long as you remember to remove the lid of the pan and let the chicken roast until nice and golden.
Also, the weather is getting colder even in Alabama and it feels good to have…
Hello, hello! I am actually doing this! Look at me, I am posting a recipe!
Also, I am trying to learn to take decent pictures and to write decent looking recipes… I also need some decent intros to my posts (mental note).
Ok, so today we are cooking stuffed peppers. Why? Because I haven’t had one of these in I cannot count how many years and it used to be one of my favorite dishes when I was a kid.
2 years spent doing “analytics” stuff. Time really does fly! It wasn’t a smooth flight, don’t get me wrong, I had to deal with a fair share of “air pockets”. The thing is I actually ACTUALLY GRADUATED in May. So, I am Business Analyst now, with a framed diploma and all. After graduation, I went against all my friends’ advises and spent the summer in Europe. Apparently I should have entered a…
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