Acerca de mí
Air Force brat, world traveler, lived abroad and the U.S. Love to try different recipes. Bake, cook, and collect cookbooks! LOL Love Southern cooking and ethnic foods.
Influencias de Cocina
My cooking was heavily influenced by my Hungarian Grandmother, whose life was the kitchen, cooking for 6 children, growing vegetables and canning. I "learned to cook" watching her as she would make doughnuts (jelly) from scratch and "feel". I don't believe she ever owned a cookbook! LOL Living all over the U.S and overseas as a military brat, I learned to cook different regional and ethnic styles. I am now widowed and the kids are grown and gone. But I still cook daily and love to pick up cookbooks, because of the many variations with recipes and techniques. I love kitchen gadgets and appliances and have a large "arsenal" of them. Often, I think "outside the box" and "wing it" with what's on hand.I truly believe that what makes a good cook or Chef is the ability to substitute and visually judge ingrdient amounts. My latest accomplishment is learning Sicilian style cooking, as I now have a Sicilian male friend, and he "hates" Italian cooking! LOL