Ryana

about me

I love to cook and experiment with food and flavours. This started whenI was on a very low calorie restricted diet for a little while and needed a way to jazz up the chicken and salad/vegetables I was allowed to eat for dinner. I discovered Recipezaar and some cooking magazines and now it's a passion.

I am slowly amassing a nice library of cookbooks (in fact, I've promised my boyfriend I won't buy another one for six months because I've gone a little crazy), but my favourites would have to be by Nigella Lawson. I also like Bill Granger, Neil Perry and Giada Di Laurentiis. Celebrity chefs/cooks unite!! My non-celebrity chef favourites are a tired little copy of Easy Italian, The Mediterrasian Way and anything by Marcella Hazan.

Favorite Foods:

My favourite type of food to cook would have to be Italian, but I do love some Japanese flavours too.

My favourite food to eat would be pasta or sushi. What kind of pasta or sushi? I don't really mind. I like them all.

I have a fairly strong sweet tooth (not good for someone wanting to lose weight) and it's fairly specific too: it wants thick rich and often creamy decadent sweet stuff.

My favourite dish at the moment is Gordon Ramsay's Sticky Lemon Chicken from his book: Fast Food. I love the flavours and it goes well with absolutely anything, from potatoes to rice to noodles.

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