My fellow food enthusiasts, I’m dropping a short note to introduce myself to the food-site scene. My name is Crystal and I’m from Houston, TX. (Barbecue anyone?) I’m a mother of a three year old, and avid reader, freelance writer and lover of many things that life has to offer, but mostly a lover of cooking, experimenting with and experiencing food. I’m not the best of cooks, I’m no chef, but I do consider myself to know a thing or two about it. Self taught, from years of curiosity, wonderful accidents and unsavory mishaps….and okay, a little research.
The best advice I could give to any aspiring know-it-all cook is to be creative, sure, but to try things that you are afraid of in your food imagination. You will make mistakes and things your dog wont eat but you will surprise yourself too. That’s how we learn what works and what doesn’t. That’s how I learned. That’s how I learned to make a killer brisket that involves cherry pie filling, for instance. I know it sounds weird but who now makes every one’s favorite fork tender brisket? And this is Texas, y’all.
Over the coming series of articles, I hope to share with you my adventures and mis-adventures in food and bring you recipes, theories, tips, tricks and reviews that will inspire your inner chef. Even if that inner chef currently cooks for “Le House of Frozen Dinners.” Hey, I’ve been there too.
