freestyle cooking - let me explain

Recently, I've been cooking at home a lot more. My bank account thanks me, and TikTok moms draw me in with their recipes. (take that TikTok ban!!!). My first attempt at making something from scratch was a sourdough loaf. if you know anything about sourdough, it is either the easiest or most complicated loaf to make. disclaimer: that was an opinion, I am still a cooking novice. I've had my sourdough successes and my sourdough fails. essentially, that was my indoctrination to freestyle cooking... let me explain.

Freestyle cooking is a made-up term I use to describe my cooking method. it consists of inaccurate measuring, a lot of guessing and intuition, and good vibes. I cook for fun. I cook to share things with others. But I am notoriously known for cutting corners, perhaps mostly when I shouldn't. To some, cooking is a science. people use scales and thermometers and even calculate... things. I, on the other hand, do not.

I grew up cooking with my family occasionally and had my mandatory cooking show hyper fixation phase (I don't trust you if you didn't, by the way), so I know the general idea of how things are cooked. meatloaf, for example, ground beef, egg, chopped onion, bread crumbs, Worcestershire sauce, and ketchup. Boom! where's my cookbook?

If you thought that was impressive, think of the potential for my lasagna soup, cucumber lemon chicken over rice, and kind spaghetti but with a twist recipes. I made all of those up and they were good. I am not biased, by the way. I will include testimonials... in my next blog!

Stay tuned if you want the details for these recipes (you do) and other updates on me!