Welcome to my kitchen.

Welcome to my kitchen.  This is where the magic happens.

I apologize that my kitchen isn't 100% clean, but, well, I've resigned to the fact that my kitchen will never be "clean."  A kitchen is like cookware: any pan is a non-stick pan if you don't cook in it, right?

By day, I'm a nerd.  By boss deemed me "Ultimate Problem-Solver" when he offered me my current position.  I'm 100% analytical.  I'm an auditor by nature.

But by night, I CREATE.  Give me a kitchen and a pantry full of ingredients, I will create something.  I can't quite keep the analytical side of me out of the kitchen, though, but I've found that's not a bad thing.  In fact, it helps me taste something that someone else has created and re-create it myself.  This is one of my favorite things to do.  

I've always enjoyed cooking.  Even more, I love sharing my love of cooking with my friends.  One day I mentioned that I'd come up with the perfect title for a food-blog, "Now I Sit Me Down To Eat."  Ever since then, my friends have been after me to create said food-blog.  Alas, here it is. 

This food-blog is dedicated as follows:

To Chris, Krystal, Melissa, and Trish, who love my cooking almost as much as I do, and who have been waiting for this food-blog from the minute I mentioned that I someday wanted to create it (its possible they had this idea even before I did).

To my sisters, who call me for help with recipes when mom doesn't answer her phone.

Finally to my mom, who let me follow her around her kitchen as a kid.  As much as I love The Food Network, I learned all the basics from my mother.  If it weren't for her kitchen, I wouldn't be welcoming you into mine.

I'm not sure if anyone has ever dedicated a blog before, but, well, what you'll learn here I learned from someone else, and was encouraged to share these things with you by those that I love.