Hey, I’m Jordan – a software engineer who didn’t know much about cooking until I became a University student and had a thesis to write. That’s when I discovered tasty looking recipes online and spent hours in the kitchen every day attempting increasingly elaborate dishes as a way to procrastinate. Over time, I began to improve and noticed surprising similarities between taste testing and debugging code. Cooking became an experiment and I wanted to learn how to tweak the recipe to maximise the flavour of the ingredients.
I grew up eating fairly typical Scottish household fare like mince and potatoes, chilli con carne, tikka masala, sunday roast and steak pie. I had no idea what real Japanese, Thai, Indian, Korean food etc. was. As a student, I lived with international flatmates who helped to open my eyes to all the wonderful cuisines out there and I was eager to try them all. Around the same time I began to travel outside of Scotland and my love of food only intensified further.
Cooking for my friends became one of my favourite weekly traditions and I was ironically given the name ‘Giordano’ by some Italian friends. I played along and started to call my pizza ‘Jordough pizza’ which kind of stuck as 8 years later they still call me Jordough. Now I want to share the progress I’ve made on my cooking journey to give another source of recipes for future thesis-dodging cooking procrastinators.
Food presentation is not my strongest skill but I am keen to get better and this website should force me to get there. This is just a little side-project so do not expect regular posts but I do have many ideas in the pipeline. Excuse disclaimer: I’m not a web developer so I did all of this on wordpress with minimal effort for a minimal recipe site that I hope is just as simple to use. This isn’t my day job so if you want recipes with optional life stories after the recipe, then stick around!
