I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.
Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.