My name is Sarah Anne and I have been obsessed with cooking from a very young age. I didn't however go on to study cooking in any professional context. Instead I experiment and feed the results to myself, my husband and various friends who volunteer to be guinea pigs. Mostly the food I invent comes out pretty good and so I decided to make this blog to share my unusual creations with people.
Let me tell you a little more about me. I grew up in Liverpool, England to an Irish family and therefore food has had a very significant impact on my existance. We were not a wealthy family when I was growing up, I was the youngest of five, but we ate well mostly because of my parents versitility and ingenuity. The cheapest of foods was always transformed into something wonderful on my parents table. A multitude of things which other families would buy preprepared we would make ourselves. This served as an early food education to me. From a young age I would hang around in the kitchen with my family. Meals where big events in our family, dinner in the evening was a chance for us all to stop and talk to each other about what we had done that day. The making of food was also the centre of our family - home made christmas and birthday cakes, home made treats, home cooked dinners. So from the time where the only thing I could do in a kitchen was hit a pan with a wooden spoon till now has been an education for me as much as my university film degree was.
At university cooking was a way for me to destress and also make friends. I also taught a good number of people basic cooking skills who where completely unprepared for self catered university living accomodation. I also cooked budget roast dinners for my flatmates and it a great social occasion. We also held various things like ice cream parties. This was also where I learnt to make my own food creations out of necessity. Some of them where the most unlikely creations made simply because I had to feed myself out of the things I found at the back of the freezer or fridge and cupboards at the end of term when money was tight. These creations have odd names because I am not so great at naming things but each and everyone has been tested and found tasty.
I also found my husband at university, and my cat, my lizard and my hampster. My husband and I still live on a tight budget and still odd food creations are made. Therefore there are many new recipies all the time for us to tell the world about. So hopefully you will enjoy the recipies I post and also the ideas and discussion and even the little rants that may come up time to time. :)
