Welcome To EZ Cooking

 

Welcome to EZ Cooking. I'm your host, Richard Blaine. EZ Cooking is all about cooking EZ and cooking quality, delicious meals for you and your family that may sound complicated, but are in fact EZ'r to make than you may think. Food is the fuel that keeps us running, so why should the food we prepare and eat just be some mundane chore that gives us the fuel we need to live but not the pleasure or the eating ritual? Fuel can be ever changing and exciting. These changes don't have to be major world class gourmet changes that cost a fortune to accomplish, they can be subtle, delicious and quite inexpensive to accomplish! I know that we live in a busy workaday world and it seems like the pressure never stops. Our lives are hectic and stressful and in many cases for many of us the only real relaxation time we get is when we get to sit down and eat our meals.  We should not have to stress out when making our meals and just throw something together that we may not fully enjoy. Then of course many times after we eat our lives go back to being hectic again with planning our next day and the nightly chores that we go through before having to go to bed just to get up in the morning again and start another stressful day. The last thing we want to stress over is making our meals. It is this hectic lifestyle that can and often does put us in a rut doing and making the same things over and over again without really even thinking about it. We just go on autopilot. Do this!, do that! Mail this!, Mail that! Pay this!, Pay that! Eat this!, Eat that!

This autopilot syndrome also includes buying and eating the same foods and the same meals day in and day out year in and year out. This is because our shopping list ends up on autopilot along with many of the other things we do by rote.  This naturally gets boring and takes the fun out of two of life's greatest pleasures we indulge in as mortal beings, cooking and eating! Cooking should not be a drudgery, it is a pleasure and a form of fun and stress relief if you let it be! How many people do you know that have told you that for them cooking or baking is a form of meditation? Meditation is good for you! Of course in my opinion the eating is the best of the two pleasures. In reality there is nothing wrong with making the same things week in and week out as long as you can make these meals in new and different ways! The changes can be quite subtle and these subtle changes will change the quality, taste and presentation of your meals. Plan on doing this. Cooking doesn't have to be hard! With some basic tools and information cooking can be EZ! The best part of this, is the fact that you won't have to spend huge sums of money doing this. It is one of my goals here at EZ Cooking to cook EZ meals with you and to share with you how to make do with what you have on hand to make your cooking EZ!

I will also share with you high quality low cost recipes that will help you save money and I will also share some of my all time classic favorites from some of my favorite chefs! One of the things I like to do is take a fine dining recipe and modify it for the day to day wallet and refrigerator. There are many classic recipes that have room for a wide birth of originality and modification, after all isn't that what cooking is all about is taking something and making it your own? This is the fusion of you and the food. This is another area where the pleasure and enjoyment of cooking comes from. Everything I know about cooking I have learned through trial and error and self education. I know there are many of you out there just like me. Let's cook together and have some fun! Yes, we will make meals and we will talk about "a pinch of this or that, a little of this or that, a smidge here and there, a scoche here, a scoche there, or this and that and a simmer here and a simmer there and viola! Done! That's cool for a lot of things as many recipes are open to individual interpretation. I also like to explore the "how's" and "whys" of cooking. There are tons of places where you can go learn "how to" cook a dish, but I like to look at technique and that is something I find lacking out there. So I will share with you the techniques that I have learned along the way that have enhanced my cooking competence and pleasure and it will do the same for you! I love to cook just as you do and EZ Cooking is here to share with you, to talk with you and to learn with you, not to talk at you! Let's become better cooks together!

Best Wishes,

Richard Blaine
Eat well!, Enjoy what you eat! And Long life!