Happy Holidays Friends!
Let’s start with I am NO chef. Dietitian, yes. Chef, no. It’s always funny because people always assume RD’s are great cooks. I applaud the one’s that are, I envy you. I am more of the science brain RD. The medical and science piece of nutrition is my jam. Cooking is as foreign to me as it is to my athlete’s.
Last year, I teamed up to do a cooking demo with one of the authors of Run Fast, Eat Slow. She was amazing. I clearly made most of her recipes after that but then I started to venture out during quarantine. Pinterest, Half Baked Harvest and Chrissy Tiegan are my go-to’s.
While cooking I have noticed, I question the recipes a lot. Ha! I have started to tell myself, “trust the recipe Nikki”, don’t change anything. It helps to follow the recipe exactly. I think we try to change up stuff in the recipe because we are a little scared and just don’t know what it means. Most of the time it doesn’t always turn out if we do.
This year for Christmas I am going to challenge myself to make a few things:
It’s scary in the kitchen trying new things. It can be simple like a cheese board or complex like figuring out how to not burn the outside of the chicken while the inside is still raw. If you don’t try, you’ll never know! I am having fun learning to cook in my small kitchen and really dreaming of a huge kitchen like I see in the cookbooks!