John Cooks

I took a night off in the kitchen! Chris, from Eat Air, proposed that we get the guys to cook for a night. So that's exactly what we did. Now that I've uploaded the photos... I'm handing the keyboard over to John to tell you about his first food blogging experience.

OK, so the cooking part I gladly agreed to, but I definitely got sucked into the whole blogging thing. I still don't understand what the difference between a blog and a website is, but I'll leave that alone for now. So, I rarely to never cook anymore, but have done quite a bit of it in the past.
A generation ago (and a few before that), my family made a living by cooking. When I first met Amanda, her speciality was a bowl of cold cereal. I can't claim credit for teaching her everything she knows though, she just started obsessing about it soon after her proclamation to "give this vegan thing a try". Just made some cabbage and mushroom curry tonight. I used to make it when I was single and had run out of fish to eat, usually in the winter. It's low calorie, easy, and lasts for a few days. Definitely made a fancier version than in the past (cabbage, mushroom, curry powder and tomatoes). That's about it but the recipe, which was very adlib, started with browning some mustard seed and onion in peanut oil, added garlic, ginger, serrano peppers, curry powder (hot), and garam masala. Then dumped in criminis and portabellos. Finally added cabbage for a while, then fire roasted tomatoes and let simmer for while. Poured that over basmati rice and served with roasted chickpeas (that Amanda made). Margaritas helped tame the heat of the serranos. Have to admit, it turned out a lot better than my solo attempts. So that's my post. No dessert with this one, better get another margarita.