This blog is going to ultimately be about cooking in a small space.
I'm writing it because, for most of my adult life and most of my homes since leaving my parents, I've been doomed to suffer galley kitchen after galley kitchen. My original idea for the blog was to write about my experience of cooking in a too-small space, and the tips I had gathered and come up with to make the experience bearable, enjoyable and as efficient as possible. Then I remembered that I am a utensil-heavy cook, so I decided to scrap the efficiency part. Cooking for me will always be enjoyable, and sometimes I need to make a mess to have fun.
The blog's premise has changed now. For various reasons, I'm hard up at the minute. I'm really inspired by cooks who do a great job on a tiny budget - Jack Monroe is my hero - and I'm trying to live by example and shop savvy to save more, or at least to spend less.
So the small kitchen has become two-fold. Low on space, low on funds. I still aim to eat well and adventurously, but am trying to come up with as many cooking hacks, shortcuts and 'You won't believe it's not' type recipes as I can.
This is never going to be a proper recipe blog, or if it becomes one, then my cooking style or organisational skills are going to change somewhat. I tend to throw things into a pan and cook with all five senses until the whole dish smells, tastes, feels, looks and sounds right. Yes. Sounds. Sound is important to me for reasons that I'll no doubt get to in the fullness of time.
For now, though, stick with me, enjoy my half-recipes and attempts at humour, and add your own ideas if you fancy - comment boxes are there to be written in!
Until I blog again. xx Alex
