One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Virginia Woolf
I must start by saying it is nice to be writing again, so much of my list is in the "progress stage" and auto pilot mode, that I haven't had a chance to write much. A long with the many other tasks I have taken on lately with my list, I have also started to work away at my plans to have my own personal cook book. There are so many great recipes on the web now, that it seems pointless to spend money on buying cook books when one can simply Google what they fancy. For this reason I have decided to make a collection of recipes that suite my taste and will become "Brett Butchart signature dishes" (stealing all credit from the original owners).
In this article, I'd like to take the time to notice the quote "one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." I find this to be a very truthful and powerful quote how we dine plays a tremendous roll in our social lives. Food is use for all sorts of social gathering, its also used to energize us and keep us healthy or used to provoke comfort and security. In may ways it is a key corner stone to our connections with other people. The reason I am going to make a cook book of my "signature dishes" is because I think it will be a nice way of identifying my personality through the art of food.
My cook book will consist of the following:
3 party dishes
3 side dishes
2 soups
1 salad
3 breakfast dishes
5 lunch dishes
3 sea food dishes
3 fish dishes
2 pork dishes
3 beef dishes
4 chicken dishes
1 turkey dish
2 vegetarian dishes
3 pasta dishes
1 cake
1 pie
1 cookie
1 brownie
1 fruit desert
1 frozen desert
3 bbq dishes
1 dip
1 sauce
1 dressing
3 drinks
Once I have all the recipes my book will be done !!!
Yours truly Chef Butchart
