Member Since:
Nov. 2005
Cooking Level:
Expert
Cooking Interests:
Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Slow Cooking, Italian, Mediterranean, Dessert, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies:
Boating, Fishing, Reading Books, Music
My full time job is a catering manager at a private school. I also write for Examiner.com. I am currently the Norfolk Cooking Examiner as well as the Norfolk Pit Bull Examiner. My 2 passions in life are cooking and changing peoples minds about Pit Bulls. To check out my cooking articles, follow this link:
http://www.examiner.com/x-4180-Norfolk-Cooking-Examiner
My favorite things to cook
Chicken because of its versatility; seafood; fatty, cheese-filled Italian dishes; homemade mac and cheese; cookies
My favorite family cooking traditions
1 word: PORK. Every Christmas, my grandmother makes her famous lasagna, meatballs, sausage and pork. I've never seen a huge, loud Italian family be so very quite at the dinner table...except when we're fighting over the last piece of pork.
My cooking triumphs
My famous cheesecakes to which I will never give out the recipes to. Sorry people.
My cooking tragedies
Thanksgiving Day, cutting into the pumpkin pie to find the crust on the bottom totally raw when it had not been a few hours earlier! Can a pie crust just uncook itself?