grew up on the outskirts of neworleans spending time with friends and famialy usually in the kitchen. i have a passion for cooking that i got from my pa-pa and grandmother that time has only expanded. now i find takeing famialy recepies and makeing them healither a great way to pass the cold and offten rainy washington coast days. one a year peanut butter pound cake, grandma's chillie , pa-pa's broccolie rice cassrole "if you want to eat those beans you have to start snappin"- Grandma / everyone got a little pile of green beans (size depending on age) and grandma wouldn't start cooking the beans untill you're pile was snapped. that is unless you were her grandkids who could do no wrong never had a cake fall in my lifetime/ finialy managed to flip a sunny side up egg.. couldn't flip a sunny side up egg untill i was 19.