It is always has been something that has played on my mind, starting a blog. But what has also played on my mind are the things I associate with blogs. Generally speaking that is amateur food critics and travel. Knowing comfortably that this blog will be neither of these, I felt it was time to address the next stage in my thinking. Incidentally that is 'time'. When does one start there own blog?
I am a chef, which should be abundantly obvious, given the title of this blog and I am currently working at Duke Carvell's Swan Lane Emporium in Wellington, New Zealand. I have been working here for nearly a year. In the last year I have been very lucky. Starting with a pop-up restaurant that some friends and I hosted at the Embassy theatre, the cinema most famous for world premiers of the 'Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' and following on to now...
So...let me talk about now. In the months leading up to now, I have a) being offered the head chef position at Duke Carvell's b) won the 'outstanding emerging chef' award at the capital awards c) become engaged to a lovely lady who somehow came along at the most perfect time, d) bought a car allowing me to drive to places around Wellington and further north to explore places to buy and find food, e) bought a house, a quarter ache property littered with fruit trees and everything in between from grapes to pomegranate, and finally f) created a new Autumn menu for Duke Carvell's which goes live today.
As I cannot really go back and detail what I have cooked with any great accuracy in the past and because Milestone times like these are times to look forward to see what the future holds, it is the perfect time in which to start this blog.
The goal of this blog is to document the trials and tribulations of my menu planning, dish creation or perhaps anything else I deem pertinent to food and cooking. I would like to take a look at some of the processes I undergo in order to make my menus and perhaps just some fun in the kitchen, but also explore some of the projects I have going at home as well as in the garden.
