The overabundance of webpages concerned with making meals and visually documenting each step sets a high bar for the justification of yet another. You might say I’m having a laugh. At what? At the juxtaposition between my lack of kitchen credentials and an innocent reader’s expectation that a morsel of culinary wisdom will be found within such posts of mine. Comedic element aside, it’s worth noting that I wouldn’t treat a topic I didn’t have genuine interest in. Far from being by any measure a cook or baker, and notwithstanding my laments about there being too few food categories, I nonetheless have tasted the satisfaction of achieving an edible result that required more of me than reaching for the butter knife and a chunk of store-bought baguette.

Where, then, to begin? On the simpler side of the spectrum, with each subsequent entry focused on an incrementally more complex recipe.