Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they're not intimidated by them. If I'm doing 'Boy Meets Grill,' and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.
When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.
I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.
I'm a homebody, I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.
Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.
Even cooking at home, the difference between my wife cooking and me cooking is major. When my wife cooks, the kitchen looks like a disaster. When I cook it's completely clean and organized and it doesn't look like anyone has been cooking in there.
The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.
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.
There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.