A Love For Cooking

I think my love for cooking happened when I found my favorite book of all time, Best-Ever Soups. I found this big recipe book in Montana when Clayton and I were on our way home from a family ski trip at Whitefish a few years ago. We stopped in this book store and I found it this book that changed my culinary life. Lucky for me my husband LOVES soup.

I love to search for new recipes and seldom use my cook books, with the exception of my big book of Best-Ever Soups. I spend alot of time on the web searching for new recipes to try and when it is worthy of making again I write it down and keep the recipe on record in my bright pink album.

Not very long ago Clayton and I watched the movie Julie & Julia, which sparked a whole new obsession of spending even more time reading recipes and reading about how to be a better 'chef'. One website that is a must-have bookmark is  www.http://rouxbe.com a cooking school full of online recipes and tips. Super addictive if you love cooking. There is inspiration from Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Julia Childs book).

Anyways, I have been asked several times what kind of food I cook at home and it is really hard to pinpoint. Clayton and I are not meat and potatoes every night kinda people... well Clayton will eat whatever is on the table and if it was up to him to have super ready I would walk in the house to be greeted by delissio pizza. But lucky for me he thinks that two weeks ago he got food poisoning from a delissio pizza so I have a feeling that is off the menu plan for a while. I have nothing against store bought pizza, but I would much rather make one from scratch. Why have 3 Meat delissio when you can have a homemade Tomato and Bocconcini Pizza with Balsamic glaze drizzled on top and a drop of pesto sauce? Right?!

Ok, I am a food nerd. I love meal time. I am so nerdy that sometimes when I cant sleep at night because the baby inside me wont stop kicking, I have leg cramps and I have to pee, I think about what kind of eggs I should make for breakfast in the morning.  But I can admit that weirdness because I know Clayton appreciates it. So, since I have had people tell me I should share some recipes I like, I am going to start posting some of my favorites. Enjoy!