Hello there!
Welcome, readers. If you're a pop culture nerd, a foodie, or preferably both, then you're in the right place. This blog will be my creative outlet as I experiment in the kitchen. I am not a trained chef, but a home cook who taught myself using YouTube tutorials and classic cooking shows on TV. I’ve made everything from simple dishes like tuna noodle casserole to showstopping desserts like pavlova, and I’ve experimented with unusual or interesting combinations, sometimes to the chagrin of my family and friends. I don't let that stop me, though.
Why is it called Ate Bit Culinarian, you ask? Because I’m a massive gamer. Not only that, I’m a completionist. I go for 100%, picking up every collectible, uncovering every secret, and getting the most out of every single game I play. It’s the same with cooking. If I have a cookbook or some other collection of recipes, I will want to make every single one. Inspiration strikes me everywhere. I’ll play a game or watch a movie, see an amazing looking dish in it and wonder, ‘How I can recreate that?’ A recipe will come to my recommended box on YouTube and I’ll think, ‘Wouldn’t I like to try that?’ So I will.
I won’t limit myself to game-related food on here, though. I want to explore lots of recipes from movies, TV shows, cookbooks, and real life. My vision for this blog is in the vein of Julie Powell’s cooking blog, The Julie/Julia Project. In it, she documented her attempt to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s famous cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, in a year. In the same vein, I will be exploring cookbooks and other media and trying to cook every single recipe in them.
I don’t have a food stylist or expensive photography equipment. I’m not formally trained, and I am trying most recipes for the first time. If I make an error, you’ll know about it; if something in the recipe doesn’t make sense, I’ll try and find a workaround and share that. This is real cooking we’re doing. I’ll share what I feel made the dish come alive, or what I think could make it better if I made it again. Whereas Powell’s blog focused on a single cookbook by one author, mine is intended to be a continual project that covers numerous books and individual recipes. From time to time, I will also share recipes of my own making.
Should you subscribe, I will treat you to weekly updates every Monday where I recap my attempts at one to two recipes. Said updates will include my review of the recipe, and the photos I took. My content will always be free to read, but as I gain a following I will implement subscription tiers, for an affordable price of course.
Out of respect for the developers of these recipes, some of which are in books still in print, I will encourage you to seek them out yourself rather than reposting them. For recipes that are freely online or extremely rare, I’ll include them.
I hope you’ll join me on this new journey. I will start on Monday next week with musings on the time I made the Strawberry Pie from Celeste, an independent platform game I really loved playing.
