Cooking Fancy Foods

Maybe it's just me, but there is something so fulfilling about cooking foods or recipes that sound really fancy or exotic. Sometimes it really is an accomplishment; other times it's just satisfying to unravel a recipe that seemed so daunting beforehand. It's like joining some elite club, the club of people who know how to poach chicken or how to make a New York style cheesecake. I am definitely no master at anything and very much still a student. But that's what I find so exciting--I can be an eternal student in the art of food and still make a delicious meal for my family.


The art of New York style cheesecake still eludes me.