Member Since:
Sep. 2007
Cooking Level:
Professional
Cooking Interests:
Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Frying, Mexican, Southern, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Low Carb, Healthy, Dessert, Gourmet
Hobbies:
Gardening, Boating, Biking, Music, Painting/Drawing
I work as a pastry chef at Edible Art, in Raleigh NC. I have been baking and decorating cakes for over 10 years now. I also enjoy cooking as much as baking. I aspire to open my own restaurant one day.
check out our website at www.edibleartbakery.com
My favorite things to cook
Shrimp and Grits, my recipe. Mexican food!! I think it's the best food in the world. It's also my friends' favorite thing that I cook. German food, traditional, just the way my grandma taught me! I really like making coastal southern foods, such as grilled and fried fish with a variety of sauces and seasonal vegetables. I also love the heck out of salads with homemade dressing!
My favorite family cooking traditions
Pit cooked BBQ, eastern style! Brunswick stew. German foods, Rouladen, Kartoffel Klöße, sausages, sauerkraut and German potato salad. My grandfathers Greek food, he makes awesome crepes. Lamb chops with gravy and rice. Cabbage rolls and egg rolls.
Too many to name!
My cooking triumphs
"Lemon Bar Cake" It's a favorite among my friends. My roasted salsa recipe is a winner as well as my baked, then pulled Mexican chicken. Quiche. Being able to make good pie crust is a skill.
My cooking tragedies
My pumpkin pie I made for Thanksgiving one year, the crust was awful. I also screwed up a pumpkin cake recipe when I was making a wedding cake by adding baking soda instead of baking powder. The cake was dense and greasy.
I also had a wedding cake start melting in the back of the delivery van once, I'd say that's a tragedy!!