Cooking

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About Me

Hi there, I'm Alex -- a soon to be design verification engineer currently living on the West Coast. I studied computer engineering and (as evidenced by my job now) steered towards digital hardware. Outside of work I play volleyball, cook, lift, and play pickleball. In some order of the amount of time I dedicate to each.

Which, brings us here. This website will be a subset of $\{\text{things I find useful}\}\cup \{\text{things I find fun}\}$, cooking being the latter. I chose a blog instead of cooking reels for 2 reasons: 1) because reels take an incredible amount of time to film and edit, and 2) I already watch way too much short-form content.

What sets (the cooking part) of this blog apart is its focus. Rather than only recipes, I will be focusing on techniques and cooking principles. Recipes are easy to rely on, but cooking isn't about only following instructions. It's about a) visualizing what flavors will go together, and then b) having a set of techniques to apply to the ingredients. Each recipe will begin with a brief conceptualization, and follow by linking to the relevant techniques, before then diving into the actual steps of making it.

Note: everything written here are my own opinions and do not reflect views of my employer.