I’ve been lucky enough to have had a helper since my day 1 on this Earth, thus never really had the need to go into the kitchen to cook stuff.
However, because of my “sweet tooth” taste, I have accumulated quite a few dessert recipes along my life, mostly in Portuguese. While living in Brazil, that was never a problem, because I would give it to the helper and she was able to follow it. But… this scenario changed when Joel and I moved to South Africa… the helper could only read English or Zulu… so… that meant I had to go into the kitchen for deserts, which was ok. I was cooking things I liked and it wasn’t the whole time. Carlota (oh gosh, have been missing her so much!!) and later Siggy, would always be right there, on the way, by my feet just hoping something would fall… so adorable they were!
However, as we learned in physics, every action calls for a reaction, in this case, a consequence - sending the girls off to college with very little knowledge of cooking (they both did a “basic college cooking” course at the end of their high school). I did send them off with some other skills (or so I hope, LOL!) but surely not cooking skills.
Well, this is now all history! At the end of last year, Alice decided to change this scenario and… and … went out and got two copies of the same recipe book. One copy she gave herself and the other one she gave it to me. I LOVED the idea!!
Her suggestion is that we cook together, the same recipes, in spite the fact we live in different countries. Every time one of us cooks one of its recipe, we’ll exchange comments about it, like on how it came out, on anything we could add or whatever… I’m in awe with her plan! We'll try to cook at least one recipe a week.
So, in order to have a triumphant entry into this new hobby, while in the States now over Christmas, we went into a “Williams - Sonoma” and I got myself a gorgeous bright yellow (to match this colorful Panama) apron.My mother heard about this plan and is sending us some of her newest recipes… just great!
Where is the diet? Anyone said diet? … no worries, Alice’s book is all on low fat cooking!!! Bon appetite and good luck to Joel’s stomach, my test pilot.
