Introduction

My name is Alex and I'm 37. My cooking experience began about five or six years ago after getting addicted to cooking programs. Let's face it besides the football there's no other reason to watch Sky! Before that my skill level was reheating food at best (frozen meals, packet sauces with pasta etc).

I've basically taught myself the skills in the kitchen by copying what I saw on screen and found that I easilly picked it up and saw an improvement not only in my style of cooking but also in the end result - other people besides me could eat it without being poisoned lol.

I decided a while ago that I needed a place I could keep my receipes. Now these are recipes that not only have I pilphered from the web and magazines but also stuff I make up myself -with varying results. I also wanted to share them with my friends and family so decided a blog was the best way to go.

So here I am!

My cooking has various influences from my trying to replicate the stuff I ate as a kid from my mother (bar for the shoe leather beef! - sorry Mum xx) to copying TV chefs. My favourites being Rick Stein, Jamie Oliver and of course Nigella Lawson (mmm...Nigella...). I would say my favourite style of cooking is Mexican, preferably Native Mexican recipes rather than Tex-Mex.

I will try my best to add photos of the resulting finished recipes and where possible link to the original recipe on the web if I've nicked it.

I hope you enjoy the recipes and the blog, try the recipes yourself and feel free to leave comments.

Bon Appetit!