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I’ve loved food for longer than i can remember, I’ve also loved cooking for many years. Although not to keen on the tidy up. I can remember my first ever recipe I followed, good old Blue Peter Sausage Christmas Crackers, I must of been 12 – What I’d give to find that recipe again. (They were a sausage meat mixture in filo crackers if you have it please contact me 🙂 )

Anyway jump forward past a few years of making mince pies and shepherds pie, I found myself looking to create food at home that was easy but also a taste sensation. This timed in around the same time as Instagram foodies took off. It was wasn’t until I started my own family and left the family home that I really started cooking, and from there it has snowballed into a love of all food. I started off with a cookbook, then one became two and somehow two become twenty. Okay maybe 50.

I now use a range of cooking methods including: Stir-fry, Steaming, Oven, Hob, Slow Cooker, Indoor Grilling, Outdoor Grilling & Smoking. The only thing I tend not to do is deep fry, but never say never.

I felt that I also wanted to show friends and family the food I had made but it was always such a task, some only had text messages, others Whatsapp, Facebook or Instagram so I decided I would make this blog just to show what I am cooking.

Now as you can see I don’t update this blog everyday as I would hate to bore you all with basic recipes that I cook on a daily basis. I keep this blog for either new basic food or mouthwatering amazing recipes that I wish to share with you.

Even if no one ever reads this I find it a good journal and it saves me keeping scraps of paper with ideas on and helps tame two of my best hobbies, Web design and Cooking.

I do also write up reviews for products that I feel deserve a mention. If you have any comments just email me on daryl@akeencook.co.uk

 

Thanks for reading, Big Love, Daryl x

 

 

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Hey, Over here :)

Hi, I’m Daryl, A Keen Cook.

After having a love for cooking for many years, I decided to make this blog. It’s aimed to be family friendly with meals for busy mums, dads, grandparents, real food anyone can make, easily at home with basic equipment.

I use a range of cooking methods including: Stir-fry, Steaming, Oven, Hob, Slow Cooker, Indoor Grilling, Outdoor Grilling & Smoking. The only thing I tend not to do is deep fry as I air-fry, but never say never.

Often my recipes do not contain onions, due a onion allergy at home. But that’s not always, so please don’t be put off.

You’ll struggle to find perfect photo’s, they’re more real, and on the go, while I’m cooking, none of them are “setup” for this blog just quick snaps taken while cooking, mostly unedited.

Hopefully you’ll enjoy reading. And feel free to contact me at any time.

Big Love
Daryl

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