I started this blog at the insistence of my boyfriend.  He discovered my passion for cooking early in our relationship and has always made fun of the fact that I insist to need every kitchen gadget there is.  Of course, being my financial advisor as well (or more like my conscience), I can’t even buy a miserable pasta wheel.  I never cease to devise methods to acquire these little items, though. 

 I am a hispanic female in my early thirties who for some odd reason really enjoys cooking.  I come from a rather small family (or I don’t know many family members).  All the women in the family hated cooking, from my mom, to aunts, you name it.  But my grandama, she loved it.  Either that or she was the best actress ever!  I do remember as an adolescent I was not crazy about her cooking.  Yes, I feel very guilty writing this, but this may have very well been the beginning of my cooking delight.  In all fairness, she loved feeding all of us and did so every day, from breakfast to lunch to dinner.   

 As a rare hispanic that I am, I never really liked local foods.  This of course, was the only thing my grandma made.  In order to skip the food every now and then, I would watch some cooking show and prepare whatever the host was making.  It is weird, but eventually my grandpa, my brother, my father, and even my grandma insisted I prepared enough for everybody.  Hum…  Oh well, and so it began.  I guess part of the pleasure you get from cooking comes when the people enjoy what you cooked.  I am glad that I inherited this love of cooking from my grandma, although now that I think about it the sewing talent would have been much more useful to me.  

I am not a professional chef by any means, but I like experimenting with recipes and different tastes.  All my recipes come from the foodnetwork chefs.  I always alter the recipes to fit my taste.  However, I will mention where I got the recipe since I have not concocted anything myself.  My favorite food, as with many people is Italian.  My boyfriend though, loooves spicy Mexican cuisine.  I do not have the taste buds for hot peppers, but I am getting there.  I kinda always related hemorroids with hot peppers.  I was wrong.   

 The purpose of this blog is to simply share my kitchen stories with people who may or may not relate to them.  You may get some ideas for cooking and you may provide me some ideas as well.  I want to restate, I am not a professional and the stories I will share will serve as evidence.  Anyway, in the manner that you can, enjoy.