The Journey into Cooking

Welcome to Froggy's Cooking Pad.

This is my journey into the world of cooking. Not so much learning to cook but learning to LIKE to cook. I can follow a recipe as well as the next person. Well, for the most part, anyway. But I could never understand the allure of WANTING to cook. To me, it was always just a means to an end...eating.

My whole life was about avoiding learning things in the kitchen. I always volunteered for kitchen duty rather than have to stand over a hot stove cooking something. Where was the fun? Where was the joy? What was the point?

 It was only recently that I made a discovery. While watching shows on the Food Network channel, I discovered that by merely changing one ingredient, a whole meal could be changed. Or by cooking it differently. I was watching these shows and all of sudden, there was a spark. Nothing big or dramatic, but a spark nonetheless.

So I thought I'd try my hand at creating something. Oh sure, I'll be using recipes to start. But I'm hoping that I'll be able to learn to use my palate to create my own recipes.

I hope you'll join me on this journey. Or quest, if you will. Go through the trials and tribulations; the successes and failures. And maybe we'll learn something together.....