What’s your favorite recipe?

What is a recipe? Legit. 😂

Just joking, I clearly know what a recipe is. After all, go look at all the food porn on the photos tab on my homepage.

There is a certain skill required to using an actual food recipe. The first thing is understanding that whatever other human wrote that recipe, was eyeballing the measurements too.

Not once in my nearly 22 year career have I ever seen anyone stop in the middle of their creative process to wash their hands and write something down. Only to repeat the hand washing and moving back into the preparation process.

Things can go tragically wrong in the 3 minutes it would take to wash your hands properly, twice – in a kitchen. Especially, if you’ve actively got something working.

Trust me. I know things….

Then, there are the recipes that look like ingredient lists.

One of my favorite memories comes from Chef Mondo. There I am sifting through a cage of assorted cooking utensils. Of course, it takes 15 minutes to find a metal spatula. Per the usual sub-par standards, one of the asshat line cooks had taken it upon themselves to remove and hide them. This way the events team in stuck using rubber spatulas to flip burgers on a 500 degree flat top.

I’m not going to get stuck there, although it still triggers me to this day.

As I am standing there, using some pretty intense language due to my own hurry. Chef approaches me with a paper. I assumed it was another write-up for some bullshit. My former boss was in the process of gaslighting me out of my job role, at the moment of time. Come to my surprise, Chef says, “Does this look like a recipe to you?”.

I look at the paper. It’s a list of 5 ingredients, misspelled in scripted font resembling a clickable headstone in World of Warcraft.

We both started laughing, as I said “This looks like a shopping list”. We both started laughing.

Turned out, the majority of the “RECIPE BOOK” was done up in the same way. No wonder the food quality was garbage.

Personally, I do not use written recipes unless I have been hired to make someone else’s signature dishes. When I do require the ingredients for a dish, I will look at a recipe as a reference.

However, I prefer the challenge of pairing and altering of traditional flavors. Coming from a non-traditional culinary background, my culinary school was the kitchens of the world. My instructors were your Kin.

I flunked out of Culinary School. The Arts Academy of Pittsburgh wasn’t too fond of my “rather abstract” style. Even at 19, I wasn’t ready to color inside the lines. Yet, I still hold the highest degree achievable in the United States Collegiate Associations available courses of study.

If you’re looking for a traditional answer as the prompt clearly provokes- you won’t find it here.

Instead, I’m going to take a sharp right turn. Sure, good food is definitely a recipe towards having momentary happiness- but what if I was to tell you something completely different?

Are you ready?

The recipe to personal happiness is opening yourself up to the unexpected and unknown. It is only by using this recipe that you will be able to experience your world change.

It’s not in that titled job, busty brunette, or clean cut hottie. It’s rooted in your personal power to manifest change.

That is my favorite recipe.

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