testkitchenette

Long Island, NY
personal chef/healthy eating counselor/writer

I am an avid natural foods cook who has been cooking since I could step on a stool and help my mom stir. I create recipes all the time spanning from vegan baked goods to re-creating my grandmother's beef brisket. I am a part time vegan and all the time delicious food consumer and creator.

• What is the strangest food you have ever eaten?
  Almost everything that I ate at a traditional Chinese wedding (some delish others I guess I would've had to grown up eating them).
• What do you cook when home alone?
  Everything!
• Your most treasured kitchen possession:
  My Kitchen-Aid
• Your ideal meal:
  Fresh grilled seafood, seasonal veggies, key lime pie, and a Frangelico
• Something you'd like a chance to eat or cook:
  Chocolate (from the bean to bar).
• The number of bottles of wine you own:
  Including champagne? 5.
• The ideal number of guests for a dinner party is:
  Whoever shows up!
• Kitchen pet peeve:
  Messy counters and a sink full of dirty dishes.
• Your favorite cookbook:
  Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking and Nigel Slater's Appetite