Easter

Just a flying visit...

For a change I've not spent the day slaving over a hot stove, instead I've been wading through Easter Eggs and other various seasonal treats.

That's right, who needs to cook on Easter Sunday when we're inundated with eggs and chocolate, I've enough here to last me till... well next Easter. Actually, while I'm here, could someone explain why we celebrate with eggs, it's beyond me?

Anyway, the real reason I'm blogging - I have a confession to make. Back on Ash Wednesday I wrote that I would be giving up on chocolates, sweets and fizzy drinks for lent... well... lets just say it's not gone so well.

But I have a valid reason, it has become a tradition to eat such rubbish on a Thursday afternoon while I present some student radio... I blame Amy (she's a bad influence).

If you do feel let down, please feel free to comment below... but be kind, I have made some progress! But avoiding the good stuff (the stuff that's 'bad' for me) is much harder than this cooking malarkey. 

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday is widely associated with food because it is the beginning of Lent. Now, I'm not usually one to carry on with the Shrove Tuesday thing past my pancakes, but this year I have decided to give it a go.

In the interest of my blog and to increase any chances of becoming a master chef I have decided to give up chocolate, sweets and fizzy drinks.

You may ask 'what has this got to do with your cooking blog?' well there is method in my madness because too often I substitute a good meal with a bar of Dairy Milk or a bag of Jelly Beans.

So, fizzy drinks aside, this should lead to me cooking more and consequently needing more lessons - after all I can't live on tomato soup alone.

I'm going to have to be more proactive about my cooking but I am still trying to figure out why I included fizzy drinks?

Oh well, we'll see how long this lasts.

Welcome

Welcome to 'Unmasterchef'.

My name is Chris Edwards, and I'm a 20 year old Broadcast Journalism student from Shropshire.

I have a variety of hobbies and interests but one particular interest of mine is food. We all know that food is the substance of life, but it also helps if you can cook the food properly.

Thinking about it, I have to admit that there is, after all, one significant difference between television chef Nigella Lawson and myself... Nigella can cook.

Having identified this as a significant flaw in my bag of skills, I have decided that it is time to learn to cook and there is only one suitable candidate to teach me - my Mum.

More or less everyone believes that their Mum is the best at cooking; students when they return home at Easter, adults when they visit at Christmas... we all look forward to Mums meals, so if I can cook like Mum then maybe I can convince everyone that Chris' cooking is best?

As it stands I'm a culinary disaster and it's time to turn that around... it's going to take time and this here blog is going to document my journey from master disaster to master chef.

Enjoy the lessons and other various kitchen bits which will be cooked up over the next couple of months, and "let's be having you", follow my journey - you never know I might teach you something.

Ready, steady...

Image courtesy of 'How To?'