Donalda
I’m a self-taught/ family taught/ taste buds taught cook. My family cooked - we had for a time a summer restaurant business at the beach that we all ended working in at one time or the other. I had an uncle who was a butcher and taught me how to wield a large butcher’s knife at the age of 9 and my knife skills, well - what can I say. I currently live and grew up in Rhode Island. Being married and having four boys - currently teenagers - it is by necessity that I cook and I love it.
I need to confess I now need my glasses at all times to see the recipe, and now wear them on a chain around my neck in the kitchen – although I'm very embarrassed to admit to that – but after losing the glasses in the cake batter one too many times I had to do it, and at least now I have a very tasteful beaded chain. Ok Ok I do have some quirks.
Kitchen gadgets and cookbooks are two of my obsessions, and I have far too many of each (but not as much as someone else who will remain nameless for now... I love black leggings and a great pair of shoes -- also a great handbag, but this is a cooking blog so I can't get started on that yet.
I need to confess I now need my glasses at all times to see the recipe, and now wear them on a chain around my neck in the kitchen – although I'm very embarrassed to admit to that – but after losing the glasses in the cake batter one too many times I had to do it, and at least now I have a very tasteful beaded chain. Ok Ok I do have some quirks.
Kitchen gadgets and cookbooks are two of my obsessions, and I have far too many of each (but not as much as someone else who will remain nameless for now... I love black leggings and a great pair of shoes -- also a great handbag, but this is a cooking blog so I can't get started on that yet.
Gina
Okay, enough about you. I agree that life in our large, extended family definitely centers around all things food, and probably always will. Unlike Auntie D, I have two girls (rather than four boys) and live in Connecticut full-time and Rhode Island part-time, although all of us wish we were in the Ocean State (RI) for good.
I will cop to a similar addiction to cookbooks, and this year I made a New Year's resolution to start cooking from them on a regular basis (for better or worse).
So stay tuned as we both cook what we know and what we don't know, with a few field trips thrown in for good measure.
And yes, the story about our Uncle the butcher is true: we can ALL wield a 12 inch chef's knife with PRECISION.
Okay, enough about you. I agree that life in our large, extended family definitely centers around all things food, and probably always will. Unlike Auntie D, I have two girls (rather than four boys) and live in Connecticut full-time and Rhode Island part-time, although all of us wish we were in the Ocean State (RI) for good.
I will cop to a similar addiction to cookbooks, and this year I made a New Year's resolution to start cooking from them on a regular basis (for better or worse).
So stay tuned as we both cook what we know and what we don't know, with a few field trips thrown in for good measure.
And yes, the story about our Uncle the butcher is true: we can ALL wield a 12 inch chef's knife with PRECISION.
3 comments:
Gina, I was wondering if you had the same issue as my mom-when it comes to cooking she's phenomenal, but she has issues completing a full cup of coffee. It is a guarantee that a half-drank cup of coffee will accompany any meal at our house and I was curious as to the possibility of a genetic issue here?
Eddie
Eddie -- very funny, we all have our quirks -- it is possible I may have more than most..
-D
(FYI -- Eddie is my oldest boy)
I can speak for Gina and she never finishes a cup of coffee. She'll bake 3 loaves of bread, two dozen biscotti and a batch of gingerbread cookies but she won't finish the cup of coffee she's poured for her self. It must be in the genes
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