Welcome!

Where to start...5 years ago, if you told me that I would be posting my favorite recipes on Facebook and people would actually be trying them...I would have laughed at you and said "Doesn't everyone already know how to make peanut butter and jelly?", because I didn't cook.  If it wasn't frozen, canned or available for pickup, I wasn't making/eating it. 

Then one day something clicked.  To impress a guy, I decided I would search the internet for some recipes and make him dinner.  Well, he was a great critic and said everything I made was fabulous--so I decided he was a keeper and I continued to experiment in the kitchen--learning that not only did I like cooking but I was becoming pretty good at it.

Now I am by no means a gourmet chef.  I work full time, I try to cook almost all of our dinners, so most of the time I make things that are readily available from a regular grocery store and can be prepared in a relatively short amount of time.  Meaning, you shouldn't have to go to a specialty store to buy ingredients and you won't be slaving away in the kitchen for hours if you try these recipes.

My goal for this blog is to post what I've made recently, how long it took to make, the difficulty level and if available, the nutritional info.

Most of the recipes I post have come from other sources, which I will note. However, I use recipes as suggestions...a starting point...with ingredients added/deleted/combined to make it the way I think it should taste.

Mangia!