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Everyone has to eat. And eating is such a basic element of our lives that we should enjoy every single minute of it, especially when we’re eating something really tasty.

Cooking is the prerequisite of eating. Most of the time. But it’s all about fiddling in the kitchen, isn’t it? Sometimes I wonder why some people just doesn’t like to cook, or why they are too lazy to do something in their kitchen? Why is it better for them to order food? Okay, making pizza is time-consuming and requires a bit of technical knowledge, but making a pasta dish? Or a soup? Yes, at first this cooking-thing can be scary, but with a bit of practice it’s not a big deal. There are always shortcuts! I’m not saying I’m a kitchen god, most of the time I have to phone my mum to ask her questions about measurements and things she can’t even answer because cooking is like second nature to her, she’s cooking by instinct. And that’s a good thing, and I think everyone can reach that point with years of practice.

So I’m inviting you to join my culinary journey. I want to reach that point where I don’t care about measurements anymore because I can cook anything even in my sleep. But beware, I’m a home cook, so you probably won’t see any restaurant-food here. Or the skills of a restaurant chef. I don’t think real cooking requires great knife skills or expensive ingredients. Believe me: to cook and to bake like a kitchen god you don’t have to be Gordon Ramsay. But you do have to be patient, fearless and adventurous.

Okay, you’ll soon realize that I’m hardly any of those. I’m probably the most impatient person in the world, I’m fearful when I try out new things and I rarely like to change recipes that worked before. So here I am, a 24-year-old librarian from Hungary, who attempts to cook a lot and then write about it in English, although it’s not even his native language.

It’s gonna be fun, isn’t it?