How my love of cooking began

I have always had a passion for all things food and cooking since I can remember. As a young girl I began cooking as a necessity. My Family would work till very late in the evening at our family tin mine and when they would finally make it home my Mother would be to tired to cook dinner so I would have it ready for them. My specialty was Lasagne a favourite with the whole Family. I was always up for a challenge  and as the collection of cookbooks grew so did my Menu. I was never afraid to try new things and was never one to follow recipes to the letter this was not always due to choice as we lived a long way from the local store it would depend more on the ingredients on hand at the time. This has given me an ability to substitute when you don’t have the chosen ingredient there is always something you can use. This came about not from desire but from necessity with the closest shops over 2 hours away there was no way of getting things so we just made do.