About Us

I love to cook – it’s a real passion of mine and if I could figure out how to pay the bills doing it, I would spend my entire day, every day, channeling my inner Julia Child, Anne Burrell, Ina Garten, Mario Battali or many of the other talented home cooks I admire. I guess it’s my way of expressing my creative side – I lose all sense of time and space when I’m in the kitchen. I read cookbooks like they’re novels, filled with great adventures and mysteries – and my status updates on Facebook are usually about something I’m cooking in my Central Indiana kitchen.

I’m not a professional chef nor do I have formal training, I don’t create new recipes although I’ve been known to ‘tweak’ a recipe here and there – I like to say that I’m a pretty good ‘copier’. I read tons of cooking magazines, watch Food Network and follow other food bloggers. I’ve never written a cookbook – but a girl can always dream, right?

Sometimes I imagine I’m an Iron Chef doing battle in kitchen stadium or that I’m in Europe at some cooking school, speaking the language and preparing mouthwatering dishes for Barbra Streisand, (I saw an interview recently where she’s discussing food as art) . . . In fact, as a child, I believed I was her adopted daughter because (a) I could sing, (b) I was the only child in my family with red hair and (c) my mother owned every album she ever made. I just knew Babs and I would be reunited on the Mike Douglas show (I’m dating myself here) and we’d sing ‘People’ and then begin a worldwide tour. In fact, I did tour with a group called ‘The Pointless Sisters’ in the 80s – but, ~sigh~, Babs was no where in sight . . .

I hope you enjoy this blog but most of all, I hope it inspires you to head to the kitchen and cook!