Post 4: Cooking Recipes

Thanks to Instagram, cooking recipes have become much more accessible and easy to find. From healthy recipes to elaborate desserts, the variability we found has never been greater. Nevertheless recipes that seem quick to make and that anyone can cook actually they aren't.

I love cooking, I learned cooking techniques at 12 years old, when my mother needed help feeding us and doing housework. Thenceforth, I started researching and learning about cooking techniques and how aromas can help us combine different flavors. I must confess that I didn't learn to cook for my own initiative, it was because of my obsession with sweets, since my mother did not cook those recipes for me because she did not know them or have the time to make them, so I decided to cook them myself. At that time, Instagram was not yet so viral.

At the beginning, when I asked my grandmother to help me cook Chilean recipes, such as calzones rotos and sopaipillas she answered the ingredients but without the quantities. her answer in Chilean speech is "to the eye" something like the amount of ingredients until you see that the dough has the right color, flavor and texture. Thing I did not know because I had never made the recipes or forgot them. 

It really was a frustrating response for a person just starting out cooking, due to many things can go wrong in the kitchen. But that's how Chilean grandmothers are. I promised never to teach a recipe to the eyes.

Well, I became what I swore never to be. Now I make the recipes without quantities. Which is not a very good method in cake shop, but helps me save time cooking. I understand my grandmother why she did it like that.