“I like looking at cookbooks for inspiration and presentation ideas, but the bulk of my cooking is done by instinct and either buying fresh seasonal ingredients or using up what I already have in the freezer, basing my meals around good- quality meat. I don’t want a recipe that calls for lots of things I don’t have, so I tend to avoid cooking from a book. I have learned how to cook from trial and error, watching and copying, substituting ingredients according to my family’s tastes, and experimenting.”
