Cooking

I love to cook . . . my way. Not any fancy way, but just plain my way. My ideal recipes contain just a few ingredients; if the list is long, it better be long with things like extra veggies. I'm not a fancy sauce person or anything. Mostly, I just invent my own recipes. But all the fancy recipes do tick me off, because I'd love to make the food, but sometimes it's just too darn hard. Therefore, I was pleasantly surprised to read the non-expert column this week in The Morning News, which deals with Culinary Pet Peeves. It's pretty funny, and it actually has some good ideas for adapting and dealing with fancy recipes.