My fiancée is a chef so that leaves me in the dust. I never used recipes before.
My grandmother taught my mom and all her kids how to cook most foods from scratch.
I was raised on authentic Mexican food. Most of the food I ate growing up, you won’t find in a restaurant of any kind. Even those Mexican restaurants that claim authenticity, they are not.
Basically my grandmother, my mom and my Aunts throw ingredients together to form a main dish and some kind of other vegetable. Because my family was poor for the most part, we ate a lot of garden to table vegetables and our meat came from my grandparents little farm of cows, pigs and chickens. We ate a lot of homemade tortillas, potatoes, zucchini, chicken and pork. It was cheaper to slaughter a pig than it was to slaughter a cow. And slaughtering a chicken was a piece of cake.
My grandparents were minimalists. My grandpa did the grocery shopping. He would buy flour in the 20# bags, broth, milk, butter or margarine. He would buy the necessities, what my grandparents couldn’t grow, harvest and use. So now as an adult, I have absolutely no idea how to cook like that.
So here we are, trying to find recipes for dinner because I never remember to defrost the meat.
My fiancée challenges me to do my very best when I cook dinner. And I have come to love cooking and trying out new recipes. I don’t have much to contribute in recipes but I’m good with tips.
