100? I can hear you already wondering what that is and how it relates to me, but 100 is what it says, it is my own personal milestone in cooking, whereby I have finally surpassed the 100 recipe marker. It was a marker that I didn’t set myself to achieve, I simply cook recipes that are from my heart and soul and all the awards or achievements that may be gained from such a marker mean little to me, it is the food I create that is the real winner. I started this journey off just over a year and a half ago, I wanted at first to show to my close friends my cooking style and what food I like to eat. 

I began cooking in a way that best describes the way I am feeling inside, it tells to other people who I am as a person. I liked the response from my friends every time I created a new recipe, they all could see that I had real passion within food and that I was bringing those passions to the front in the form of a photo instructional guide. The guide I created was a way to show to others every stage that is necessary during the cooking process. I find it to be a huge bonus, as whenever I need to cook a recipe that I have already produced, I simply need to look within my photos and see exactly how and what is needed in producing any such recipe.

The guide also gave to people the freedom in cooking that they were looking for, a way to see each process for what it really looks like. It is sometimes hard for people to understand cooking if the only images they see are through a simple method, ingredients list and photo that to some makes the cooking seem like such an incredibly difficult task. I do of course include the method and ingredients within my recipes, but it is the photos that I have to offer that really stands me out from the crowd. I like to take each photo in the best possible light, even if it was as simple as capturing each ingredient in its opening stage, it must have the look to it that makes people want to create any particular recipe I was producing. 

It is sometimes hard to keep capturing each stage as I cook, such as when I am frying meat or onions I have to quickly take a photo, put the camera in a safe place which would be the worktop next to me then begin to cook again. It is a tough and tiresome affair at times, but I get so much pleasure in what I do. I get to show to a huge audience what it  means to have the freedom of expression within you. In my expressional world I try to produce food that I know in my heart people will like, in a way I am a performer on stage showing to the audience something new and unique and hopefully they cheer and not boo. 

The thoughts of boos are not valid in my world, as in life people like certain things and they dislike others, so in my food I try to keep a good selection of recipes by giving to people choice and variety. The variety I present is not coinciding myself to just one countries food but many, as I like the different ways people express their foods. This is why I have had such pleasure in producing so many recipes, as there is a whole world out there with many interesting foods that many of us know little about. This is why I set up my cooking page, I wanted to show to people that all came from different places in the world the choices that exist not solely through their own country but of many other countries. 

The response I have gained from this approach is one that simply cant be categorized or grouped, it is something that is on its own and shines out to all those who view any recipe I produce.

The food I have produced over the past year has grown in leaps and bounds. I always think that once you have you have you reached a sustained level of excellence you will only want to improve on what you have already learnt and experienced. Much is the case with my cooking, I started off cooking simple yet elegant Italian recipes, to where I am now which is producing cakes with such an artistic outlook involved and also my new found desire to include fruit within each recipe I produce.

I hope by including fruit in my recipes I am showing to others that food can still taste aromatic, but it still will hold so much goodness within. I hope also that people will like these new and exciting fruit based recipes, in a way I am opening a door for people to view, a door to a world of food that if you want it to, it can enrich you and give to you all the familiar flavours you may have been used to, but you may not of known that fruit was a key part in making an average recipe into something that will really excite all the food lovers out there. 

I know too that I will not stop learning or improving in all I do, I’m always looking for the next recipe that will really open another door into cooking. As a child I would sit and watch hour upon hour of cooking shows on tv, my passion for cooking was inside me, hidden away from view but I knew in my heart I had to let it out, show others this passion and hopefully in doing this I would open up more as a person and I believe in all I have done I have become a better person for it.