I haven't read the book but I have seen the movie. It's what had somewhat inspired me to start blogging about food a long time ago. I enjoy eating food, making food, and critique food, as well as my family.
I used to be the worst cook ask Josh he'll tell you. I made easy microwave meals, over cooked things, or burnt them. Baking is still something that I'm not good at but my cooking has gotten way better. I'm also completely self taught too, although my mom might have taught me a few things I was still pretty clueless when it came to actually cooking and preparing good food.
When I first started staying home with Katy I decided I would become better at being a homemaker, that was my new job, right? So I started reading more things from the likes of Martha Stewart to find ways to create fun in the home for the kids and our family. I also was watching Food Network cooking shows, but non of those weird reality cooking competition shows though, no offense those are not my cup of tea. I enjoyed watching Ina Garten, Giada De Laurentiis, and Sunny Anderson. From there I started some crazy kitchen adventures and then my skills got better and better. Along the way however I botched a TON of items. There were nights that I was excited to try something new and we still resorted to PB&J after, that still happens today as well.
Living in Lima brings about new cooking adventures, I've had to learn how to make a lot of items from scratch that were so easy to buy in the states. So along with trying to create old favorites Im also learning to cook peruvian food.
This is where the above book comes into play. Not so much the actual book but the idea of it. One day I was sitting around our home trying to find something other than reading that I could fill my days with. I got this crazy idea that I would try to do what Miss Powell did but with a Peruvian cookbook. I decided I wanted to write about the ups and downs of my journey through cooking and eating Peruvian food.
So I've been creating and plotting for the past few months and I finally have the page up but no posts written yet. My entire idea of the blog is to talk about anything that pertains to the gastronomic world of Perú. I wont hold back if I don't like something I'll kindly tell you what I didn't like about it, same thing with what I do like, and if I totally botch a dish I'll talk about it and even have photos of the mess that resulted.
The book that I found in my online searches is a book by a very well known and famous Peruvian Chef, Gastón Acurio. He owns several restaurants across the city and hosts a tv show as well. His most recent book Perú is the book that I picked. There is over 500 recipes from him in this book, which has sections for Ceviches, Appetizers, Street Food, Soups, Dinners, Desserts, Drinks and even Condiments.
I can't wait to share it all with you, and I hope that you follow along. Josh may chime in from time to time about things as well because I'm not the only one who loves to eat and find new things across the city.
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