For a long time I have been looking down on simple recipes. I discarded anything with only a few ingredients and way-too-straightforward flavor combinations. I was on a continuous hunt for the original recipe ideas that I gathered from the cookbooks, food magazines, blogs, TV shows, newspapers and restaurant menus. I took pride in my extensive recipe collection. I was constantly taking notes and meditating on the new combinations of textures, colors and flavors. I loved going to the restaurants run by the like-minded chefs. Cooking is an act of infinite creativity, and kitchen is a lab where experiments never end. Spontaneous stone soup? My apologies, I am too cool for that. I did not want to publish traditional recipes on this blog as I anxiously wanted to include my own unique vision of every single dish I came across. Because honestly why to bother with something that does not include me?

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