Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
I first became acquainted with Michael Tracey’s recipes when my daughter Karen traveled to South Africa for an internship. Needless to say, Karen tortured me with the culinary offerings of some of the wonderful restaurants she discovered from ‘forty ate’ and ‘five flies’ to ‘Cafe Mao’s’ to an extraordinary sushi restaurant smack dab in the middle of an elegant Italian Restaurant on the waterfront!
I wouldn’t mind making some Bobotie soon!
One of the things I really would have enjoyed was a cookbook from my grandmother. Alas, she was one of those wonderful chefs that had literally everything in her head. I have to confess to seeing a small address size book that had all kinds of pen scratchings in it… but it didn’t LOOK to my young eyes as a cookbook… but it was! Her book was covered with all the abreviations that frequented some of the wonderful cooks from the ages. I look back and wish I had it today!
So with a lot of proding from my adult children, I produced a mini-cookbook ( primarily to see how it looked and how it works) for them using the tools from mypublisher.com. Fortunately for you, they just updated their software making it much easier. I will work on a more larger and complete book with all the little details that I omitted from this book… but it will take me a year ladies, so be patient.
Obviously, I left out a lot. Laura commented that it contains only manfood… you know, desserts and entrees. Well, I did have one recipe for a marvelous salad dressing. The next book will have much more.
So, before your grandmother or the chef in your life moves on… capture some of those memories in a book!
Roger
My daughters have been …. suggesting strongly … that I put my recipes in some perminent form for them. Thanks to Kristin and Karen and their adventures, they turned me on to a self publishing site. So, after a little bit of work, I have a book for them.
Thanks Ladies… I hope you like it.
Dad