DISHES WITH DEIMO

Recipes from a mediocre cook living in the Midwest.

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A Recipe blog without the frills.

No Life Stories.

When you pull up one of the recipes, you can expect to get just that. The recipe. No waxing on about how it changed my life, or what the exact origin of each ingredient is. You get the what you need and the how to. Simple as that!

No pictures, sorta.

When making this site, I wanted to create a sort of safe place for aspiring home chefs.

Something I have noticed with many recipe sites, is that they have very nice looking photos of a finished product. Now, while that could be the result of exceptional plating, it may also be a very nice camera setup that is giving the recipe writer a final dish that looks restaurant worthy.

These top-of-the-line looking photos can be intimidating for new cooks to try out a dish, only in fear that the end result may not look as Instagram worthy. I decided to offer the ability to see the end result of the recipe, but only after revealing it for yourself.

The SImplicity of Scale, Skill, and Spice.

  • As of writing this out, I cook for two. I can attest to the frustration of having to do leaps of mathematics in order to scale a recipe I found online, so that I didn’t have a massive amount of leftovers. I also find the concept of a “serving size” on recipe cards ridiculous. What constitutes a “serving” can be subjective. These two gripes are why my recipes are written to state how many people they are written out to serve, as well as a statement declaring that may be subject to the individual’s hunger level.

  • One thing I find lacking on many recipe sites, is a declaration of “skill level” A person may start making the recipe, before understanding how complex the dish is. Here on this site, I will have a skill level listed at the top of each recipe. The scale is from one to five.

    • 1: You have never cooked, ever. You haven’t even boiled water before.

    • 2: You have made a PB&J or two before and your boiled water is to die for.

    • 3: Your boiled water skills are approaching Gordon Ramsay levels of excellence, and you know how to follow a recipe extremely well.

    • 4: You are subscribed to several YouTube chefs, you even own the Babish Knife. You own all the cookbooks. All of them. You help cook for family Thanksgiving. You ARE family Thanksgiving. Also, you just have to look at water for it to boil.

    • 5: At this point, you can boil anything. You may just want to start your own YouTube channel. You may even work in an actual kitchen.

  • Spice is one of the most make or break aspects to a dish for some, and it also happens to be a very subjective level. Therefore, the recipes on this site will have a spice indicator at the top. It is a score of zero to three. The scale on this site is based on your own perceptions of another common item. Most recipes will also have the ability to turn down the spice.

    • 0: Steer clear if you think Black Pepper is too spicy.

    • 1: Steer clear if you think Chili Flakes are too spicy.

    • 2: Steer clear if you think Tabasco or Sriracha is too spicy.

    • 3: Steer clear if you think a Habanero is too spicy

Now for the food!