I wanted a blog that would bring the dishes of other nations’ cuisines a little closer and show that, no matter how strange their names may sound at first, most of them can easily be made at home.
I want to show the average home cook that these dishes can be a simple way to impress the family. I want to help make them approachable enough that anyone can cook them — and that people who haven’t done so until now actually will, if the reason was either that a) they thought they were difficult to make, or b) the recipe they knew before wasn’t original, and that was why it wasn’t good.
So every post is meant for home cooks. That is where the schnitzel comes from: as a kind of national icon, a familiar dish that is typically made at home. And the wok stands for foreign cuisines, again in an equally iconic way.
And the reason the schnitzel is made in a wok is that, to me, it means these two things — home cooking and world cuisine — can be brought together at home, simply. And that is exactly the point of this blog.