Cooking from scratch

[Junglemum]

I cook everything from 'scratch', because I have to and because I like to cook.
Buy having no access to shops I have realized how the food industry has us fooled. It's actually really easy to make taco or fajita seasoning. Tortillas are dead easy too. Tahini is just processed seasame seeds. Pesto takes 30 seconds in a blender. The list goes on!

None of it is hard, it just takes time (a luxury not all of us have)

If I want to cook something and a recipe is not in one of my hundreds if cookbooks, i generally google the recipe. If there is an ingredient I don't have I google that to see if I an make it. I made mango chutney last week and needed crystallized ginger. I didn't have any but google and sure enough it's super easy to make. So I did.

Having to make bread does give me the iritis sometimes just because it takes so long with rising etc.

But when I go to Aus the first thing I do is pull into Maccas and buy the kids a meal I don't have to cook, and they love it!

I use fb for recipe inspiration too. I love when my friends talk about what they are cooking, then I copy them and cook the same thing next week, saves on brain power.

Blogs and Thermomix forums are great too as everything Thermomix is from scratch. :-)