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About me

I picked up the foodie bug from a friend about 15yrs ago. I love exploring restaurants in the bay area, and cooking is my hobby. Most of my recipes come from magazines like Food&Wine, but occasionally, I'll attempt to duplicate something from a restaurant or pickup a recipe from a friend, and the successful ones get written into my own little cookbook (a word document that gets printed into a binder I keep in the kitchen).

I used to take this hobby more seriously back in the dot com days when we had much more disposable income and no kids :) But now, we're lucky to go to a fancy restaurant once a month, and my main outlet is cooking one nice family dinner on the weekend (my daughter usually colors special menus with the date on it).

I hope to try out and review some recipes on this site and maybe learn some secrets from the professionals. And since I already have a few dozen of my favorite recipes nicely typed up, I may post some of my favorites.

Cooking Influences

Kitchen Confidential, Food & Wine, Mario Batali. Rome! Ferry building farmer's market in SF. I try to go up to Seattle for Elliot's Oyster Fest every year. Recipe focus on souffles, vegetable soups, braising, desserts, pizzas.