I love to cook. This being a good thing because my wife very much does not enjoy cooking. I don't live by a cookbook, though. I don't follow recipes. I don't have any idea what I'm doing before I do it. I make up my own culinary creativity, and it always turns out great. Take yesterday, for example. I was in the mood for some BBQ chicken. Did I know how to make homemade BBQ chicken? Nope. But I knew how to poach chicken. And that was a start. After I had finished with the chicken and had begun shredding it, I took a long gulp from my peach Snapple. I love peaches. I could eat peaches every day and still not get enough. As I began to stir in the BBQ sauce and accompanying spices to the shredded chicken, an idea came to my head. "Hey," I thought, "I love BBQ. I also love peaches. I wonder if I were to.." That's as far as I got. I popped a peach into the blender, pureed it, and dumped it into the BBQ chicken. Took one last sip of my Snapple and poured the rest in. Cooking creativity at it's finest. And most delicious.
I love to mix flavors when cooking. Sometimes we do not think about simple additives to foods. It is interesting there is orange juice in mountain dew. All things have a different zest and we just need to find those unique things by experimenting with them.
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