What better way to start my first food blog than to get pickled? The nature of this blog will never be to snob you right out of bothering to try the recipes. I will never suggest that you fly out to Italy to buy your fresh pasta or spend hours crushing tomatoes for your sauce when perfectly good pre-crushed tomatoes will be sitting in your local grocery shop waiting to be bought.
I have never been the type of cook to follow an exact recipe because I have a natural understanding of food. Not everyone has this luxury, but I do think that a more relaxed approach in your kitchen will make cooking a lot more fun. In general terms, I would never suggest making something that you have to go out and buy every single ingredient for. Start with something that you already have in the fridge and then build your inspiration from that.
If you're a beginner, please follow a recipe and have a parent or guardian supervise you around the stove. I'm saying this because if you're an adult you shouldn't be a beginner in the kitchen. If you are, get off the internet and go sort your life out.
The bottle of chemicals and sugar that you'll see below is perfect for a hot summer's day but lacks a bit of love. Drunk alone it tastes like bitter maple syrup with cheap Russian vodka, but it has some serious potential.
Here's how I fix it:
RECIPE: PINK MOJITO SPRITZER
Ready-to-drink mojito (not necessarily strawberry) - 1 glass (but who are you kidding?)
A few diced strawberries
Half a pink grapefruit - juiced
Splash of soda water or 7-Up
Juice your grapefruit into the glass. If this is too messy, use a fork and juice it into a bowl and transfer it.
Murder a strawberry in cold blood. Chop it up into tiny pieces.
Muddle the strawberries in with the grapefruit juice and a bit of the mojito mix.
Fill 3/4 of the way with mojito mix and top with soda water.
Drink the ever-loving-shit out of it and make another one.
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