Foodie at 15 - Love this blog

Chefs are a different breed.  Those of you who know a chef know that.  Here is a blog that puts it into perspective.  I’ve been following Foodie at 15 (now 16), http://foodieatfifteen.blogspot.com/, for a while.  This kid is so cool!  He’s found his passion – lucky him.  He’s articulate – again, lucky him.  And, he epitomises the way a chef thinks.  I am no psychic, but I see a celebrity chef in the making.

Anyway, enough on that.  Nick’s posting on 10 October (Sous Vide Fried Chicken?) cracks me up.  It’s a short post, pretty simple, but to me it is the way a chef thinks.

For those unfamiliar, Sous Vide is a cooking style that more or less means to boil your meat.  It’s a lot more technical than this description I’ve given and always turns out delicious, so don’t turn your nose up because it’s not like your grandma’s boiled brown meat.  Yet, equally frying chicken is another cooking style (obviously!).  It is only a budding chef that would wonder if you could combine the two.  There is absolutely no reason one would need to, but its always about finding new flavours and new experiences with these guys.  I hope he does it, I hope he finds out how to sous vide fried chicken.  I myself am now curious as to whether it can be done.  (Mental note, I am going to ask Patrick this when he calls on his break)

Tests and experiments are a regular occurrence in our house too.  Because I don’t like the mess and I don’t really understand liking your job enough to want to do in your spare time, these experiments tend to happen when I am at work.  However, I have come home on more than one occasion to an unrecognisable house.  A kitchen covered in pots of mustard (all different colours), what seemed like a million varieties of carrots (I thought I was going to turn orange), meat meat and more meat all cooked in a moderately different way; I’ve even come home to a deep fried mars bar!  Though my favourite was the time I came home to a house (not just kitchen) full of yorkshire pudding.  I’ll save that story for another blog posting, I think I even have pictures.

I hope that Nick continues to pursue his passion.  I wish I’d found my at 15!  And, I hope that he continues to experiment…the thing that I am learning to love about being married to a chef is that by conducting these experiments, my meals get better every time