{"id":21,"date":"2008-07-22T13:55:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2008-07-22T13:55:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T18:55:55","slug":"ohc-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/ohc-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"OHC Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"

My philosophy to cooking is pretty simple.

Do what you want and play with your food.<\/strong>

I’m not a fan of rules and instructions that tell you that you MUST do this or you HAVE to do this, because otherwise it will be bad awful food.\u00a0 Seriously, I call bullshit on that.\u00a0 Do what you want.\u00a0 Everyone is different and likes different things.\u00a0 Just because one person likes their steak well-done doesn’t mean it gives you, the rare-steak-eater, the right to scoff and exclaim that what they are eating is shoe leather.\u00a0 If you like your steak with blood running all over your plate, then do it.\u00a0 If you like yours well done, then do it.\u00a0 You’re the one eating it, so it only matters what you think.

This is what I like about cooking, the control.\u00a0 I need to be in control of everything and with cooking I can do whatever I want.\u00a0 If I want to pair garlic powder with powdered sugar for some type of seasoning on a slab of ribs, I can.\u00a0 Hooray!\u00a0 No food police are going to lock me up and tell me what a disgrace to cooking I am.\u00a0 I am in control of the quality and quantity of ingredients.\u00a0 If I want to make fried chicken sandwiches for dinner, I can feel good knowing that because I made it, it will be way better for us than something we ordered out.\u00a0 Because I had control over everything that went into the dish.\u00a0 This is a huge deal to me.

Cooking doesn’t have to be some great unknown that is difficult or extremely time consuming.\u00a0 Yes some things are a little more complex to make and some things take more time, but isn’t that the case with everything in life?\u00a0 Cooking is trial and error.\u00a0 Some things work and some things do not.\u00a0 I still make things that don’t taste good or didn’t come out quite how I expected them too.\u00a0 It makes me grumpy and I start slamming stuff around the kitchen.\u00a0 But I’ve learned something from that experience.\u00a0 This and this don’t work for me.\u00a0 Next time I’ll have to try that and see what happens.\u00a0\u00a0 And I keep plugging away until I can get it right.\u00a0 And when I get it right, man that’s a great feeling for me.\u00a0 Look, I did this and it’s awesome.

Play with your food, to me means experiment and take chances.\u00a0 You’ll never know if you can make thanksgiving dinner if you don’t try.\u00a0 You’ll never know if garlic powder and powdered sugar taste good together if you don’t test it out and see what happens.\u00a0 Explore and experiment are the best things you can do.\u00a0 It’s a learning experience that can result in a wider range of cooking knowledge and more confidence in the kitchen.\u00a0 How can that be bad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My philosophy to cooking is pretty simple.Do what you want and play with your food.I’m not a fan of rules and instructions that tell you that you MUST do this or you HAVE to do this, because otherwise it will be bad awful food.\u00a0 Seriously, I call bullshit on that.\u00a0 Do what you want.\u00a0 Everyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4KYWa-l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}