A book or two!

They often say that ‘everyone has a book in them’, I believe this to be true, and then there are some who have a whole series of books in them.
But yes I  have to agree that everyone has a book in them, Usually an autobiography, which I think everyone should write. It may make them realize what they have done with their lives if anything. I have often contemplated writing a book over the years, but the thing that has always made me think is, what to write about?
Then back in 2008 I found I had a chance to write an article that would be published in a book and put on sale for the following year. So with abated breath I thought about what I would type up, and as soon as a subject came to mind words just seemed to flow. I found i had to rewrite everything because of how much I originally wrote was about three pages longer than required, and all what was required was two pages. So with that sent off in an e-mail that was the last I heard of that till a few months later in November 2008 when the book itself was posted to me. ‘Sea Fishing Ireland Handbook 2009 by Brian Kinsella‘ can still be found in a few places.
So having an article published in a book is a slight achievement for me, as prior to that all I had done was help out in a newsletter for the Galway Film Fleadh back in 2001, and published a quarterly newsletter for the local angling club ‘Galway Bay Sea Angling Club ‘ from 2005 – 2008.
And with all this behind me this year I started another book that, well, without giving the game away will become a nice pocket sized book that will help people in in what ever way its about!!! keeping schtumm with this one.
But then I got to thinking, a good few years ago I was going to write a book about food, no not  your typical recipe book, but a book on how to take boring foods and by adding the simplest of things can recreate and revive a food to all its glory.
And I remembered this while I was eating dinner, which was beans on toast, but not just beans on toast, especially when you melt  quite a few slices of cheese into the beans, yummie, but what made it different tonight was that I added sweet chilly sauce tot he mix, now there was something that really made beans on toast sound a little more appetizing. Some of my past creations range from a cap of Baileys into mashed potatoes, right to a nip of Jameson Irish whiskey into gravy. Such a small thing can really bring out the flavour in foods as well as give a nice complimentary flavour to what your eating.
Food is like a science, and when you know how to experiment with it you can come up with some of the most wonderful creations that your taste buds will love you for, but there is also the other side to that too, hence why some people should just never be let loose in a kitchen. “tomato ketchup does NOT go with everything” and the same goes for mayonnaise!.. oh and ‘burger sauce’, its mayonnaise mixed with ketchup, so you have the best of both worlds there, but the correct name is Marie Rose Sauce, and I’m quite sure a prawn salad in burger sauce just sounds wrong!.
And for those boiling vegetables, here’s a thought for you.. not everything takes the same length of time as potatoes to cook this goes especially for carrots, broccoli and cauliflower, they take only a couple of minutes in boiling water, and even then that may be too long.
So I think I may have a second book in me, if I ever get around to continuing the one I started at the beginning of the year, a lot of research still has to be done, but that’s the fun of it too.
Keep an eye out on my blog for updates, because I’m quite sure I’ll be posting about them.
‘Don’t believe in everything that is written down, sometimes they don’t want you to know the truth’ -Stephen turner