Huzzah!
Finally, a recipe site is doing recipe-less cooking! I was perusing Chow.com today (seriously, this Web site is awesome, kind of my dream to work there), and I noticed that they have a new feature called recipe-free cooking. Here they show you how to roast a chicken in the oven. I know, crazy, right? Other entries in the series include whole roasted fish and a freakin three-egg omelette. Oh geeze, it’s some scary stuff.
Now, I wholeheartedly agree with the whole non-recipe thing, mostly because I find most recipes insidious crutches that ruin the whole fun of cooking, which is messing around and tasting and throwing stuff in and making it yummy and you.
But I also think it’s a tad disingenuous for Chow to be acting like this whole learning basic techniques and using them with ingredients you want in order to create a dish thing is something new. I mean, that’s how chefs and your grandma have been cooking for, um, centuries? I guess? Yeah, millennia, probably. So, to recap, I think it’s cool that a Web site is giving you permission to cook without a recipe, but I also think it’s pretty lame that people feel like they need that permission. Oh well.
