People are always asking me for my favorite recipe, and I have to say, 'I don't really have one.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!
I can't stand recipes that don't have background.
If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.
I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
To me, my recipes are priceless.
I have a certain point of view, a certain way to plate food, certain ingredients that I like to use.
When I cook, it's something nobody else would enjoy.
Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.
I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.