Food. And Me :)

I love food. Every kind of food. Spicy food, sweet food, salty food, fish, veggies, fruit, meat.


Growing up, my mom cooked dinner for the whole family (and then some) pretty much every night. And I'm not talking hamburger helper-although we'll get to that later-I'm talking pasta so good that just the smell makes your mouth water. We always had rounded meals with a meat, a starch, and a vegetable, and we never had the same thing back to back. Mom rarely used a cookbook or recipe, and everything she cooked was diverse and delicious. Now you may be a bit confused as to why the name of my blog is "Not your mothers cooking" when it probably sounds like I'm introducing just that..But just wait! There's more!


To go from filet mignon at home, to filet of God knows what at college was a shock to say the least. Unlike the multi teared complexities of Moms home cooking, my diet that first year of college consisted of two bars- salad and cereal.  THIS year, I have ventured out on a quest to learn to cook. And not just cook to feed myself, but cook to learn the culinary art that is food preparation. 


And what I've found so far is that I'm actually pretty good at it! So that's what this is. A blog about me and my cooking. Unlike sketchy cop shows, names and locations have not been changed, so let me introduce some people and places. Mom, my inspiration and culinary rock. She's taught me almost everything I know about cooking, and is who I turn to with cooking questions. My two sisters, Amanda and Megan. Amanda cooks for her family, husband Mike and worlds CUTEST baby, my niece Reagan. Meg, well...Meg's a newlywed who lets her husband Sonny do all the cooking...Sonny or a chef at a restaurant. And finally Russell, my boyfriend and guinea pig. Russ helps me pick new recipes and sometimes helps with some prep work or the ever difficult task of stirring. Most importantly, Russell eats all the food I cook, and for that he should win an Oscar or Nobel Peace Prize or something. 


So here we go! Not my mothers cooking, but rather, finding my way down a path of my own through the wonderful world of FOOD :) To quote one of my favorite books, Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert:

 "The Bhagavada Gita- the ancient Indian Yogic text- says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsly as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly."

Bon Appetit!