The love for food!

I've always been concerned about my senses if i really love food. After 8 years in hospitality as a chef (and most likey many more) ive always felt, do i love food?
 Lets make it clear!
I love food!!!!

Here the catch see. I've worked in some terrible places, to the extent that ive more learnt from others in the industry a standard of what not to do then, what to do. A desire and passion ready to burst out and explode in front of such egotistical individuals was always the breathe inside me i couldn't hold in. and if it did it stagnated inside until it was diminished into nothing.
Alas! the passion inside always came back to awaken my senses and skills of this such young blonde man lost in the void of inconsistent commercial kitchens and mounding home recipe cook books. Why am i doing this? well the cook books of course.
Do you know im pretty sure... Im certain actually, that i have never cooked not a single recipe let alone read the dam massive paper weights i called cookbooks sitting on my kitchen shelf and stored away in cheap plastic clothes containers in my fucking cooking carer.
 They have undoubtedly been either a pick me up for my sorrows or failure in kitchens or a good old ego boost to make me look like some fat Ansiley or Nigela wannabe seeking tv stardom or a sad conversation starter that leads to me looking like some poncy super star chef.... as im sure Gordon would quote.
Sigh...
 But no, those were the hay days of a young teenager searching for acceptance in a world of luck and chance, bananas and pears.
My luck, is i do know how to cook. i took as my own responsibility to learn about food, techniques which that are best, flavors that work and enhances with others, methods and correct cooking procedures as well as food and ingredient appreciation.
 Fuck its taken its dam time!

 
 Ah ahoy, and so we've landed here, the year 2013! The dam mission you ask???? 52 weeks in a year, 1 recipe each week, hopefully 2 if i do dessert

Rules!!!
 - All dishes must be recipes from my cookbooks, or recipes i find but only in books!
- They must be seasonal and match the season ( salad = summer.......der)
- to stay in a budget of $10-$20 a dish. - Must follow the recipe stated!
- Must take photos of the stated book with the recipe in it, write the recipe, photos of partial steps and the finished product.
- My girlfriend gets to be my taste bunny.
- And know nuts my girlfriend is allergic to eg, hazelnut, cashew, peanut, pecan and there's another i cant as well but we wont tell her i forgot.( there may be change with this rule... just means she cant have any.
- And these must be posted by every Sunday each week.

 The goal of this exersize is not to beat Julie whats her face in that movie, even though i watched it and it was pretty good. But to kick start my love for food at home with those dam books i have sitting around. I don't consolidate my cookbooks, ever. i have learnt to make and create food using the methods and techniques i have learnt with flavors surrounding me ( and the flavor bible, the only book i do consolidate)
To follow rules and consistency to what the recipe and chef/cook has stated.
So this will be quite the challenge for me, but, with a shed kitchen full of awesome equipment, a arrange of pretty good cookbooks, endless room for learning new things and the passion and love it will be fun
And so this week the adventure will begin and in a matter of days i will have completed my first challenge as this day, this hour, this blog is the friggin dam beginning of something slightly crazy.

Enjoy followers!

Jesse The handyhands cook