My first blog

Hi There,

So I have decided to start a blog, with the advice of my bestest friend Alyssa (so you have her to thank. Lol!)  to share my cooking experiences and thoughts. She tells me, "It will be great and therapeutic for you and enough people adore you that they will read and share." So I guess let the therapy begin.

I am not a chef, although sometimes I do play one on TV, too cliche right, sorry I will try to lay off that. Ha you must not know me then because I am the cheese to everyones wine. Anyway, I love food, I love to cook food, I love to hear other people say they love my food, and I just enjoy putting the love into it. I have recently started cooking for some friendimaly's(means family that are my closest friends), the Riddles, as their "Private Chef" and I have really enjoyed this experience. I mean really enjoy it to the point where I feel inspired to make something more out of it. I mean really take it to the next level and start cooking for more than one person. I have decided I am more afraid to work for someone else than to fail on my own. Now as for the "private chef" title I really like the sound of it, but what I do is: the Riddles (and eventually insert more customers HERE) will order the night before and then I prepare everything in my kitchen and deliver it to their house. So I am more like private chef take out, which works out great.
Where does my experience come from? My mom, cook books, Bubba Gumps, cooking at home, I was in culinary school for a month or so(I have commitment issues), TV, cooking for friends, I eat food, but mainly my passion for it. My mom does get a lot of credit for making me fearless in the kitchen, she had me melon balling cantaloupe and watermelon before I could walk. I don't ever remember not cooking, and she allowed me to open a cookbook, pick something out, and prepare it. I opened and closed my first bakery business at the age of 10 selling cranberry nut breads, zucchini breads, and banana breads. I even sold a cake that looked like a hamburger at a boy scout auction fundraiser in 1989 for over $40; to my father, lol! What a great man! The point is it is something that is inside me that I enjoy doing, and who doesn't want to do something they really enjoy? miserable people, and anyone who knows me knows I am not miserable; Les Miserables YES but not miserable. The other unique thing that I offer is that I rarely get to taste my food. I am a vegetarian and have been for 11 years or so. I have thought about eating meat again but the fact is I don't miss it and I don't really want to. Now if I the offer was right I would absolutely sell out and do it. I have no problems preparing meat, handling it, or any thing like that, I just choose not to eat it. I already lied, I am not a Vegetarian I am a Pescatarian, I will eat fish - seafood, dairy, eggs, all that jazz. Next question people typically ask: what about chicken? I chuckle and say "no", that is considered meat.

So I think that is about all I am gonna share at this point. I am gonna prepare homemade shrimp ravioli for dinner tonight, so I will let you know how that comes out.
Peace