The book inside me...try one new recipe a week.

Lots of people I know either have a blog or talk of having one. It's a bit like the book everyone says we have inside of us. The only book inside of me is a foodie one, but a blog is the natural first step.
I collect cook books, (I've spent a fortune on them), food magazines, food packets with recipes on, scribbled-down ideas from friends, online recipe printouts, recipes I hear on the TV/radio and ideas I come up with in my head whilst cooking. I daydream about food and even whilst I am shopping I get inspired and have to make notes in my iPhone.
Unofficially I started my collection years ago; as a child I was fascinated by recipe books and would read them and ask my mum which ones I could try. About a year ago I decided to try and cook one new recipe from my growing collection of cuttings and books every week. My plan was to blog about what I cooked, photograph it and write any tips that would be helpful to others trying the recipe. So here I am.

I've decided to do something with my hobby. I want to share some of the new recipes that I discover and offer tips on how to make cooking wonderful dishes in a simple way.
The pile of recipes that I have accumulated will no longer sit gathering dust. I will try a new one every week and take you through each step with photos and notes.


A bit about me:

I am London born, but grew up between here and Paris, of a French father and English mother with Moroccan paternal grandparents. I have food and business running through my veins. My parents have had their own businesses all my life and are both real foodies. Food and cooking was a large part of mine and my sister's upbringing and as a family we all love to cook, eat, talk about dishes and make them for each other.

Food and everything that goes into planning, preparing and creating it are part of me and now my life with my husband Mark. We love dreaming up, cooking, talking about and eating great food at home and out. We enjoy visiting great food markets and specialist food stores such as our local Turkish and Italian grocers. We fill our weekends with the world of food.

I now work as a chef in a cafe/deli in North London but have also run a successful flower shop and flower events company in my past. I studied business and languages but my passion was always for food.

I hope you enjoy my ideas and photos of food and sometimes flowers.

Deborah