This blog is intended for use by people who are fairly experienced cooks-people who know the difference between sugar at the hard crack stage and the soft crack stage-but who just need a few ideas or reminders on what sorts of ingredients will work in which capacity. If you are not that experienced of a cook, this blog will give you a few ideas as long as you can remember, the only rule of cooking is that there are no rules.....just understanding ingredients!
I looked around and noticed that there was no place for someone like me, a person who cooked in a church kitchen with donated items, to find good recipes or recipe ideas. I often cooked without having the traditional ingredients for any recipe-and just had to cobble together something that fed a lot of people for very little money, using donated items as the basis. What happened? My cooking repertoire and abilities, considering I had very odd, mismatched and sometimes questionable equipment to work with (for example, no blender, no food processor and a stove I came to affectionately refer to as "The Bomb", which either did not heat up or went from 150 degrees to 600 in less than five minutes, depending on its mood) my skills began to expand-I loved every minute of it! I learned quickly to solve problems, make do and learn to learn as I went along. So, because I never found "how to cook if your stove is out to get you" recipes, I decided to make a blog about it myself. As I used to say when baking in that old oven, "Here Goes Nothing!"
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