I started this cookbook as a personal project, but it soon became much more to me. It started out as jotting down notes and getting recipes that worked. My goals were fairly simple; get a set of recipes that were authentic, tasted great, and could be consistently done. As a parent and 'home' cook, I needed recipes that my family enjoyed to eat and were simple enough to cook in a small kitchen and although many of the recipes stemmed from my culinary training, cooking in restaurants, and my own catering/personal chef business, my goal was still to have easy and uncomplicated recipes that...