Yesterday was my birthday and I suddenly realised the month of July had flown faster than you can burn a saucepan, and, with even more shame I realised I only did 2 lousy blog posts during the month of July....what was happening to me I asked myself?
Yes during the summer season when everyone else is out tanning themselves my work load tends to double or even triple but still, I am cooking at home on a daily basis....I do have a family to feed after all......but as every busy parent knows, you can easily get stuck into a rut of the same old same old, run home to mamma, dishes. I could tell you our weekly menu right off the top of my head and believe me it hasn't changed in weeks, we have a curry every monday...usually chicken, on Tuesdays it's meatballs with spaghetti or if I'm in a real hurry and can't be bothered to roll meatballs it will be straight forward spaghetti bolognese, Wednesday it's usually a casserole, either, pork, chicken or tuna....Thursday, it's gammon or bacon and cabbage...home grown of course, our sweetheart cabbages are fabulous this year!, Friday it is fish....well duh!...Saturday tends to be pizza night, home made of course! and Sunday will be the old faithful Sunday roast......meals I could cook with my eyes closed.
Putting my annoyance at my lack of blog dedication aside, I asked myself why did I start blogging in the first place? I had to think about that one for a few moments.
I began this blog because I love food, and because I love both cooking and writing, after a career of thirty years and numerous bumps along the road of life as a single parent strapped for cash, I am now very opinionated about food and have a lot to say about it, so what better way to indulge my passions than by blogging...... What really interests me about food is the general attitudes in our society to it.....how we grow it or produce it, how we acquire our food, how we eat it, how we treat it, how we feed our families....how we don't feed our families! food poverty and how we waste what we have an abundance of.....healthy or unhealthy food attitudes and how food can control our lives....and how certain parties are using food as a means of controlling others.
Once people found out that I cooked for a living, they were always plaguing me for recipes, so a blog is a great way to condense into one place not only my thoughts on food but to gather those tried and trusted recipes that have seen me through the years and also a few new ones too, when normal service resumes I am continually experimenting....the life of a chef is one of continual learning...the day you think you know it all is the day you should find another career!
So now I do solemnly promise that I will do better and get back to my regular schedule of at least one blog post a week, thank you to all those who kept popping back to see what I was up to....I hope I haven't kept you waiting too long, oh and if you have any food questions no matter how silly or trivial you may think they are, if the answer will make your life easier in the kitchen then you can drop me a line through my blog, find me on facebook, twitter, bloglovin, Instagram or google plus me....I'd love to talk to you or see your food pics, so until then...ciao.......oh and there's a recipe for fab roast potatoes up next....bye x
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