Cooking: there's always more to learn

A few days ago, an ordinary Japanese housewife with two small boys appeared in a TV show. Although I had never heard of her until I watched the show, it seems she is popular among Japanese women. In fact, both her blog(click here) and a recipe book in which her original recipes appear have recently gained popularity.

Her recipes can make ordinary housewives feel happy and fulfill their desire to prepare and enjoy meals while preventing waste and saving time and money. She explains how to make fine dishes with cheap ingredients and how to turn leftovers into other fine dishes that you wouldn't normally think of. In the aforementioned show, she demonstrated how to make some recipes using leftovers. What surprised me most was that she turned the traditional Japanese dish, pumpkin stewed in soy sauce, into sweet pumpkin pudding in no time at all. Some people on the show said that the pudding tasted very good and was just like pudding at an Italian restaurant, wondering why they didn't taste soy sauce.

Her amazing ideas remind me of my male friend who is a doctor. He loves experimenｔs which everybody can do at home. He often does simple experiments with his children. Also, he always tries to find time to cook because he thinks of cooking as an experiment. He makes up new recipes using his background knowledge of chemistry. There's always more to learn when it comes to cooking.