The Foodie Diaries: Amyn Murji.

Yay! So this segment is finally gaining momentum and here's my second this year.

So this guy is one of the funniest people on Twitter. He's studying medicine in the US so that's pretty cool. Why him? Cause this isn't just about celebrity chefs and what they know but also about people like you and me, who love food and love to cook it. I also chose him so that he inspires guys to get off their assess and cook. Yes girlfriends, you can thank me later :)

I love how prompt he was in sending me this and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did-

AMYN MURJI.

I hate cooking with other people. Sure, it’s cute making brownies with a significant other because one thing inevitable leads to another and both of you are smeared with brownie mix and coated with cocoa powder, giggling inanely at each other. But that’s not cooking in my book. I take pride in what I make and borrowing the adage my beautiful mother loves to quote, if you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself. Other people just screw things up.

Apart from being therapeutic and even artistic, cooking is practical. After spending hundreds of dollars a month eating at fine restaurants and questionable fast-food joints I realized I did not have the means to carry on living so profligately. I reasoned that spending thirty dollars on the ingredients to make a splendid roast would feed me for at least half a week and no amount of leftovers from any restaurant could top that. So I learned to cook.

I started easy, obviously. I wanted the deposit back on my apartment. College economics demands that sort of foresight. Crock-pot cooking, in my opinion yields the highest return; after all, it requires the least amount of preparation and attention but leaves you with a hearty meal. So stews and roasts and casseroles were the first recipes I mastered. I learned to branch out, however, because I am a man with an adventurous palette.

Concerning cooking, if there was something else you should know about me other than my preference for solitude in the kitchen it’s that I am a foodie. I didn’t know a word could perfectly describe my culinary pretentiousness until Meghan Markle (Rachel Zane) mentioned it on Suits (USA) but it… suits…me. I dig finer foods. 

Okay guys, hope you've found someone to relate to, finally. So hopefully I'll have Amyn come and continue this section but this is a stellar start, what to you think? Let me know in the comments below. You can also follow Amyn on Twitter and Instagram where I've seen the amazing stuff he cooks @amynoacid. Hope you enjoyed my second Foodie Diary of 2014. Woohoo!

xoxo

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