Its all in the details...

Why do the exact same dishes made by the same recipe taste different? Some have speculated that its the cookware, the humidity, the oils from the hands of the cook, the natural aromas of the kitchen. At a glance, a meal can be simple. I suppose when each of us cooks, we do things just a little bit different without realizing it. At a glance it all looks the same, but if you were to go into the nitty gritty details of the cooking you'd see minute changes that have a huge impact on taste. Its sort of like looking at a hand, at a glance you see the fingers, the palm, how the hand connects to the arm, and you may even see the fingernails. However, as you get closer you begin to see nooks and crevasses and wrinkles, pores and ultimately each individual finger print. I think that's how our cooking is, we each have our own cooking print, unique to our own. So no matter how many times I try to make porkum pup like my mother in law, its not gonna happen. I'll just have to be happy with the way I make it and try to convince her to have us over for supper on a regular basis! When you cook, think about your cookingprint and how its unique to you and you alone...