My name is Erin, and I don’t really know how to cook. Yet. But I do know that I am a lover of all things food and cooking related, and am just now, at the age of 24, making my first attempt at learning how to seriously cook.
Like many others out there, I love good food--and I have limited resources. A modest income that makes purchasing spendy ingredients or appliances somewhat painful, a very small kitchen in a small Chicago apartment, and, currently, a pretty small skill set when it come to cooking. But that's going to change.
Here's the plan.
Every week, I’m going to scour the Internet and the few cookbooks I own for recipes that, due to expensive/weird ingredients, techniques I’ve never heard of, or appliances I don’t yet own, I (and I think other novice cooks) would be scared to try.
And then, for better or worse, I'm going to cook.
I'll report back on what worked, what went wrong, and whether it was worth buying the $17 cheese. If you are novice (and somewhat nervous) cook like me, I hope you can learn with me, and share some tips you’ve learned as well. And if you’re a pro, well, then I invite you to laugh at me as I learn how to poach an egg.
