Foodie for Life

   I am a foodie. I have been a foodie for as long as I can remember, and honestly, will be a foodie for as long as I live. I. Love. Food. I love to shop for food, cook food, and eat food. I love to photograph food that I have made, and I especially love to feed people the food that I prepare. But this blog isn't about me. It's about.....yeah, you guessed it, food, and my love/hate relationship with food.
  Growing up, my mom was a southern cook. What I mean is, she didn't really cook healthy stuff...I remember a lot of pot roasts, chicken fried steaks and mashed potatoes, pinto beans and cornbread, you get the picture....occasionally she threw a monkey wrench in there and made calf liver and onions...GAG. When I hit my early teens, I started cooking for myself, and many years and many, many disastrous meals later, I like to think I am a pretty decent cook. I am what the professionals call a "home cook", meaning that I have never worked in a professional kitchen in any capacity other than as a waitress or bartender. But that's ok. I know the difference between turmeric and tarragon, and can make a pretty mean Alfredo sauce from scratch.
   That's what I made for dinner tonight, actually...along with some home made fettuccine noodles, which are NOT as difficult to make as the pros let on...IF you have the proper equipment. If you do, and can make your own, I highly recommend it. Everything is better fresh.
   I also can my own jams and jellies, and in the course of these blogs, I will talk more about that, and give you some recipes and tips that I have picked up on my foodie journey. I will also impart some of the wisdom and knowledge that I have picked up here and there from other cooks, cooking shows, and (my favorite method) trial and ERROR. I will post pictures of some of the things that I have made, and tell stories about my foodie journey, and how I went from loving food to deciding to make food my life long career. You see, my journey has taken me from being a rennie, to teaching special needs  children, to being a stay at home mom, all the way up to my enrolling in school to become a pastry chef. As I learn, I will impart nuggets of wisdom, share kitchen stories, vent a little (cuz I'm Irish-German-Mexican...what would I do if I didn't vent??), and most of all, I will cook for you.  I am a foodie, it's what I do.

Bon Apetit!