I was very young when I decided leaving my parents' to join my partner. We were few older than twenty. We both came from families where "mum" cooked and made up meals for everybody at home. Therefore, neither my husband nor me had never cooked (nor made full the fridge… and so on). Nevertheless, we had to manage to have four or five meals every day.
However, it was not the only trouble. There were some differences between us: I ate to live but he lived to eat; I had ever eaten Andalusian cooking, while my partner had been having Catalan one. Nevertheless, we both preferred eating in than out (then good restaurants were too expensive for us!).
After months having some more meals at parents' and the in-laws', where we were learning different ways of cooking, our first child arrived. Then we decided it was just the moment to really cook. I went to a course about healthy food, which let me know many truths and myths about healthy diets. At the time, my husband became a fan from Arguiñano, who just was starting in TV. It was the beginning of enjoying eating at home.
With all these "ingredients”, we've made up our own "cuisine": a Mediterranean diet that is over all very varied. All kind of food, variety of cooking (boiled, baked, grilled and fewer times fried, mixing Andalusian and Catalan habits) and an important bit of creativity (a wide range of salads with assorted dressing, some drops of honey over fried cod, meat coupled with cherries, or prawns with peaches or figs with Spanish ham and so on). Moreover, when we go eating out (now we can blow the expense), we often taste new dishes and have typical food in foreign countries. We have discovered loving the culture of food and how enjoy eating healthy.
