May I present:
The Amateur Gourmet!
Most of the blogs I came across were nothing special, exchangeable, but I somehow got stuck on that page. I like the way the author is telling you a story to every recipe. Some of them are funny and all of them are interesting. He tells about himself cooking with friends, him being educated about recipes or him offering an amazing cooking machine to a friend (Steve's Sous-Vide Salmon).
Another good thing about this blog is, that it has lots of pictures in it. Adam Roberts (the author) seems to take pictures during the whole cooking process an loads them up with his recipe-that makes it more fun to read the blog, and if you're cooking one of the recipes yourself you can always compare if yours looks right.
What I found interesting was, that this is not only a hobby of the author, but also his profession. Apparently he started with law school and somehow stumbled into the whole cooking thing. When he started to really like it he decided to start this blog in order to document his progress as he was learning. He also hosted several cooking shows and published at least two books (couldn't find out the definite number). To me, that guy sounds pretty interesting!
So, I decided to compare his experiences with Guacamole with my own.
Apparently we both know a Mexican person, who claims to know the REAL Guacamole recipe. The interesting thing about it is: his friend's recipe differs from the one I was taught by Lily, my brothers Mexican girlfriend.
They both use avocados, chopped onion and diced tomato. But while Lily's recipe only uses salt, pepper and lemon, Mark also adds jalapeños and cilantro. Well, which one is the original recipe? Can anybody tell me? I guess it just differs from region to region, which is okay, but then nobody should claim to know the one and only real recipe.
As for me, I guess I will stick to my personal favourite:
-Avocado
-Onion (chopped into tiny pieces)
-only a little tomato (diced into tiny pieces)
-a little bit of garlic
-salt
-pepper
-and a little bit of lemon juice-really just a little bit
-> put it all in a bowl and mash it together with a fork!
