Welcome to A Food Lover's Porn

I love to cook, and to me a good meal is better than sex!  To be honest, I’m not quite sure where my love of cooking came from.  Since a young age, I’ve always loved to eat, even if it was only macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets.  However, with age comes wisdom.  I learned there were more tastes and cuisines out there than my poor deprived taste buds could ever begin to imagine.  As each passing year of life went by, ingredients that were once black listed from any plate put in front of me began to make more and more appearances.  Soon I was craving those mushrooms and asparagus stalks I would have once pushed to the side of the plate, if someone dared to offer them up to begin with. 

Tasting wasn’t enough for me though.  I grew more and more curious about how to make these delicious dishes I would see coming out of restaurant kitchens.  I dabbled with cooking, if you can call it that, in my first apartment as a college student.  Let’s just say my neighbors were lucky the building didn’t burn down!  Yet, as the saying goes, “Practice makes perfect”.  I’ve been practicing for the last 7 years since those days of my college apartment where I would dice up leftover boneless chicken wings from a drunken gathering the night before and stir them into a pot of pasta with garlic and olive oil.  I like to think I’ve come a long way without any training other than my unhealthy addiction to the Food Network and the reading of a lot of cook books. 

This blog is going to be a lot of me trying new recipes (which I warn you now, I don’t always follow too closely) and exploring the endless possibilities that food offers.  Along the way, there will undoubtedly be mistakes and missteps, but hopefully a few successes as well.  I promise to share them both with you, both in words and photos.  Since food is better than sex to me, I guess that makes these pictures of my culinary creations like porn for me… and if I blow up my kitchen, I promise to post pictures of the big bang, too!  With that, bon appétit, buon appetito and happy eating!

My kitchen, where all the magic and mayhem happen.