Now, I am the first to admit I thoroughly enjoy spending hours thumbing the pages of a stack of cookbooks, flipping through magazines, and perusing the vast stretches of culinary capers housed on the internet. My creativity is ignited and I am suddenly invited into a world of ingredients, flavors, and traditions I have never experienced. Armed with a new recipe, ingredient, or technique, cooking becomes an experimental exploration of passion and ingenuity.
Yet, I must also confess that the multitude of recipes one finds for a single dish can be overwhelming, frustrating, and crippling. If you want to make chicken tikka masala, you'll find yourself with at least a dozen recipes with very divergent ingredients and techniques. How do you know which one to make? What if it flops and you've wasted your money and time?
These fears, in addition to the time-starved society we live in, can stop many people from getting in the kitchen and finding joy.
At Testing 1-2-3, I will take on all the unknowns and endure both the trials and triumphs of culinary adventure to test and review the recipes you request in a head-to-head competition so you can see which recipe will produce the results you want without wasting your time or money.
Each month, I will announce a specific dish I will be testing. Initially, I will be choosing the dishes, but once I have more readers, I will be taking requests and using polls to allow you to be in control of the tests I take on. After the dish is announced, readers can submit recipes they would like to see me test. These can be family favorites that you think will win the competition, or it can be a recipe you've never tried but want to see how it comes out. Recipes can be sourced from the internet, magazines, books, etc. as long as you give credit where credit is do, or you can submit your own creation.
Again, initially I will be selecting the three recipes I think will be most interesting to test, but later on I will let my readers vote and the three most popular will battle it out in my kitchen.
I will carefully document my encounters with each recipe, taking pictures and noting any details that will help you get the best results. I will give my honest opinion about which recipe my friends and family prefer, but I will also thoroughly describe the results of all three so you can choose the one that appeals to your particular tastes.
My goal with this blog is to make cooking a more joyful and rewarding experience for everyone who reads it. By testing your recipes, I can investigate the failures, uncover the secrets of success, and help direct you to the recipes that will produce the best tasting dish for you and your loved ones.
From now until the end of August, I will be accepting Recipe Test Requests for: Baked Salmon
*Until I figure out how to make this blog do everything I want, please submit your recipes via a comment to this post or leave an e-mail address and I will contact you for the recipe via e-mail. Thanks for your patience!
*Until I figure out how to make this blog do everything I want, please submit your recipes via a comment to this post or leave an e-mail address and I will contact you for the recipe via e-mail. Thanks for your patience!
