If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Before I had my own restaurant, I was never top dog in the kitchen. I've always had a low opinion of myself as a cook.
Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.
Let me start with a confession: I don't enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I'm a New Man or Jamie Oliver disciple, but because my wife's cooking is so bad. In fact, to me, cooking is less a pleasurable pastime than a defense against poisoning.
I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.
I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.
I only really cook for myself once or twice a week, but I cook for my dogs almost every day.
I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.
There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.
I won't cook in deep fat. Years ago, I met a fireman who said most kitchen fires were caused by deep fat, and I don't think that's changed. Oven chips are good enough for my grandchildren, and they're chuffed with that.
If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.