and was pretty active for about a year. At the time I was newly married and needed to learn how to cook for DH. After my second child was born I pretty much abandoned the forum and any attempts to learn to be a really good cook, although I did pop in from time to time. I just didn't feel like I had the time to cook, and never did (still don't) have the knack of being able to whip up something delicious in 30 minutes or less. To top this off, DH likes very simple meals, and doesn't appreciate it when I attempt something different with exotic flavors -- very discouraging. When my second son was two I started working full-time as a web designer and about the only thing I could make well in the kitchen was cookies, but I was really good at those, and made a website devoted to them (see below) and even wrote a Christmas cookie cookbook with a friend.
Now my 3 boys are getting older (the youngest is 4), and I work part time, so I have a little bit of time to cook something more than Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and frozen pizzas (I am exaggerating here, but only slightly). I rediscovered this group just a couple weeks before the original website made the big change that sent everyone in an uproar. After several weeks as a bystander of that train wreck, I made inquiries of some of the regulars and receved a favorable response, so I started this place with the cooperation of the owners of this website, Open Chute, who are web design clients of the company I work for.
I'm still not much of a cook but this board has inspired me to make more of an effort and our dinners have vastly improved since I renewed my involvement with this amazing group of talented people. The T&T Hall of Fame has become my favorite cookbook.
Let's see, what else...
I was born and raised in the USA - mostly in Las Vegas and Southern California, but I live in Quebec, Canada now. I speak fluent French, of the Canadian variety. Parisians make fun of my French and Canadians complement me on it, so whether or not my French is good is a matter up for debate. After 12 years I'm still happily married to DH in spite of his lack of appreciation for my culinary efforts, but without his enthusiastic response I will probably forever be a foodie "wannabe" and not a true foodie worthy of the name. A case could be made here that I'm just a bad cook and it's not DH's problem but mine! But my cooking tastes really good to me. ;o)
I'm a wheelchair user due to a neurological condition (I can walk short distances and stand in the kitchen). I'm also an avid reader of fantasy, historical fiction and alternate history literature, and of Jane Austen. I drive my kids to soccer, hockey, baseball, golf, and whatever else they're into at the time. (Mostly it's hockey, and I consider myself a "Hockey Mom"). I'm currently attending the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscaming, studying multimedia and communications.
Now my 3 boys are getting older (the youngest is 4), and I work part time, so I have a little bit of time to cook something more than Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and frozen pizzas (I am exaggerating here, but only slightly). I rediscovered this group just a couple weeks before the original website made the big change that sent everyone in an uproar. After several weeks as a bystander of that train wreck, I made inquiries of some of the regulars and receved a favorable response, so I started this place with the cooperation of the owners of this website, Open Chute, who are web design clients of the company I work for.
I'm still not much of a cook but this board has inspired me to make more of an effort and our dinners have vastly improved since I renewed my involvement with this amazing group of talented people. The T&T Hall of Fame has become my favorite cookbook.
Let's see, what else...
I was born and raised in the USA - mostly in Las Vegas and Southern California, but I live in Quebec, Canada now. I speak fluent French, of the Canadian variety. Parisians make fun of my French and Canadians complement me on it, so whether or not my French is good is a matter up for debate. After 12 years I'm still happily married to DH in spite of his lack of appreciation for my culinary efforts, but without his enthusiastic response I will probably forever be a foodie "wannabe" and not a true foodie worthy of the name. A case could be made here that I'm just a bad cook and it's not DH's problem but mine! But my cooking tastes really good to me. ;o)
I'm a wheelchair user due to a neurological condition (I can walk short distances and stand in the kitchen). I'm also an avid reader of fantasy, historical fiction and alternate history literature, and of Jane Austen. I drive my kids to soccer, hockey, baseball, golf, and whatever else they're into at the time. (Mostly it's hockey, and I consider myself a "Hockey Mom"). I'm currently attending the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscaming, studying multimedia and communications.