For me, food and cooking are the perfect mixture of art and science, bringing families together, love to the table and an opportunity for the cook to express herself.  On this blog, I hope to capture my favorite recipes, tuned to my family’s tastes and my time constraints as well as my thoughts on food, wine or whatever I am focused on learning and creating for my family to enjoy.

I have been cooking since I was in graduate school.  My grandmother is an unbelievable cook and baker and my mother is no slouch either, although she was much more reluctant to have me in her kitchen.  However, my grandfather was a dairy farmer and my Mum had a big vegetable garden so she always had fresh ingredients from which to make even the simplest dishes taste delicious.  When I  moved to England to attend business school, the take out food available to me on my budget was terrible and so I resorted to cooking.  The problem was that my fridge was smaller than the one I had in my college dorm room and my recipe repertoire was minimal so I learned two things very quickly: where the closest outdoor market was and how to follow a recipe.  In the early stages, my phone bill outpaced my food bill because I called my Mum so frequently for her recipes.  But gradually, I bought a few cookbooks and learned to experiment.  25 years later, I have a wonderful kitchen that is my favorite space in the house, a family who loves to eat good food, two teenage daughters who are becoming great cooks themselves and now this blog where I can share my experiences.  I should add that for me, cooking is a passion and a hobby.  I have a “day job” that I love – multiple in fact.  So, bear with me as I figure out how to blog and post and enjoy!