I love this blog, if you haven't already realized this :) and the main reason I started this blog, is because I didn't grow up cooking. Not at all. Being from Brazil, we always had a maid- which I consider my second mom- who cooks amazing, amazing food, and I never bothered to learn how. I fully regretted this lack of respect for food when I moved to the US to go to school and had to prepare my own meals. I regretted and cursed at it even more after I got married, and had to learn how to cook for two- which meant, all the little mistakes in my recipes could no longer get overlooked, because someone other than myself was going to be eating them for dinner :)
Nora Ephron, whom I admire and director of "Julie and Julia", has this amazing quote "Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine." The beauty of this is that it is so true, and totally outdated now that Gourmet is no longer in print. But the thought is there, and it signifies the thought on this blog: share simple recipes, easy recipes so that you can cook more and eat out less, whether it be for yourself or for your family. Because in the end, we are what we eat, and if we control what we eat, we control who we are and who we become.
In the meantime, every time I visit family in Brazil, I bug all the cooks and all the maids I can find to learn their cooking recipes and secrets. I am certain many of them could put 5-star chefs to shame with their amazing cooking techniques.
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