Introduction to my blog

When I was 16, my mother recruited me to work in the business she had build when I was 12. I had no experience in cooking, my mother had an accident in her kitchen and lost a good chunk on her thumb. I helped her with her cooking on the day, it was a very long day... She had to show me how to do exactly everything by telling me and could not actually show me anything because of the bandage on her hand. After 12 very long hours in the kitchen with her that day I had caught the bug. I worked at a couple of dead end jobs, my mother's business had grown too large for her to be able to handle it by herself, and she had extended a job to me, after some thought I decided to accept. 

For about a year I worked directly with her in the kitchen as she showed me how to work and cook exactly like she did, she is somewhat of a perfectionist, and wanted someone to cook for her business exactly as she would, so her clients would never even notice the change of chefs. After the year ended I started cooking by myself as she created menus and dealt with more of the administrative side of the business. We had a policy of never repeating a recipe for a client unless they asked us to, so mom started running out of recipes of techniques she had showed me and started adding more complicated dished to the menu that she hadn't even ever made herself and I started to learn by error by myself and that's when I realized I enjoyed cooking, learning new things and evolving as a chef.

After working for about 5 years, while playing online video games I met a man who, after many governmental hoops we had to jump through, I married and moved to California to be with. Which resulted in me and my mom selling the business we had worked so hard to build, it was a very sad day for me, I loved my job and working with mom.

Once I moved to the states I kept having the cooking itch, although I tried VERY hard to find a job in a kitchen in the states, living in Southern California, it's very crippling trying to be a woman with out  knowing Spanish working a kitchen. I got shot down more times than I'd like to admit which prompted to start looking for different opportunities. I was very lucky and landed a job at a wonderful office and I count my blessings that I have such a wonderful job, but that cooking itch is still very prominent in my life. I now cook for myself and my husband, the same recipes I used to cook for clients for very good money. Although I know he appreciates it, it's definitely not the same. So I cook and bring left overs to work for lunch like every normal red blooded American, although I've started getting "oh my gosh that smells amazing" " you made that?" "I need that recipe", which where I got the idea of this blog, I have decided to share my personal recipes with who ever might want to try them. Some of them are new recipes my mother and I conceptualized ourselves, some are upscale versions of old favorites and some are old family recipes that we dare not mess with. 

I will be posting pictures of my food I've made with the recipes for the dinners I make, and also to push myself to try new things and expand my box of old favorites, I hope who ever might be reading this will be interested enough to check back in for new, and old recipes.... Bon Appetite