Hello and thank you for visiting Culinary Chops! I hope you find my posts and recipes fun, engaging, and most importantly, delicious! I’d love to get to know each of you better, so how about we share some personal facts, ok? Good. I’ll go first:
- I have lived in New York City for 3 years
- I’m originally from Knoxville, TN
- I chose my college based on location: the beach
- I grew up cooking with my parents, grandmother and friends
- my grandmother (who shall be called Mimi from this moment on) is a crazy-good, southern cook
- yes she cooks with Crisco
- and she puts an additional cup of sugar in store bought orange juice
- she puts it in fried chicken too
- I stress bake
- I love a good challenge. And if that means attempting my grandmother’s strawberry cake over 5 times before I get it right, then you better bet that happened
- I think eating is fun
- doing dirty dishes is not. (especially with no dishwasher…thank you very much nyc real estate)
and finally,
- what is culinary chops? answer: i have no idea. I found myself staring at roughly 100+ culinary/food words after weeks of agonizing over a name for this blog. then I decided that I didn’t care about the name, only the content. so I picked two random words and hit save. the end.
I’m sure I’ll add more as time goes on, but I think this is enough for now. Now it’s your turn. Go leave a comment on your favorite post and tell me a little about YOU.
