Mayo's dinner #6

Recently I've been dragging myself to work everyday and facing a boring job with some people that live in their own dream world yet they want to control people's creativity & direction! Everyone keep telling me what they want but no one is asking what I want! Mr K has been asking me what happened to my designs lately? It's below par & not my style at all. Well, my answer is that I'm creating whatever they want instead. I guess my passion is gone for my job but I've move my new passion into food, trying to learn how to cook food in a creative way, experimenting in all sorts of food & styles, trying to read as much as I can about food, nutrition & facts about the combination of ingredients, trying to learn how to style the food in a tastier way, the lighting, the color, little info about the chef... Basically everything about food. I have never really gone through any cooking classes at all but what I cook comes from the heart & I listen to the comments before I cook therefore creating something that satisfies the stomach & warms the heart. I'm wondering if my new found passion is a experimental phase or is it because of the unhappiness of my job? But cooking & creating new food for people really makes me happy as I can control everything according to what I want. Although so far only a handful of people get to taste my cooking but hopefully someday everyone can get to sample it too!

Here is a random creation of mine which is sauteed brinjal cooked with dried shrimp & garlic. The added taste that I have used here is a dash of Thai fish sauce which can be easily bought from any supermarket.

Japanese white beech mushroom (Bunapi-shimeji)

Soba with Bonito broth

Stay tuned for more home cooked soul food from Mayo...