The Deal

What is a good way to measure your passion for something?

Cooking is my release. During times when life is hectic, stressful, and unforgiving, I can turn to my kitchen for comfort and solace. The sounds of sizzling Chinese vegetables are my ocean tide at sunset. The smell of fresh basil is my lavender-scented oil. The feeling of a knife in my hand is a session of reflexology massage. Eating and sleeping are probably the only things that beat a good cooking affair. Well there is the one other thing, but I'll keep this blog PG-13.

This blog is going to be my way of measuring my passion for cooking. I've made a deal with myself to master the general techniques of cooking each weekend for the next 6 months. I want these to be techniques that every chef should know how to do at his or her will. For the first several weekends, I will pick a technique along with a dish that incorporates the use of it. When I run out of cooking techniques, I will randomly choose well-known dishes from around the world that I have yet to attempt as a way of forcing myself outside of my comfort zone.

My hope is that by the end of six months, I will feel my passion for cooking burning stronger than ever. This will be my measuring tool. If I waiver, then cooking is nothing but a mere hobby. But if I succeed, then its on to Culinary School to become the best chef that I can be.