The Internet Cooking Princess

Dallas, Texas
Marketer, blogger, and general admirer of all things food

• What is the strangest food you have ever eaten?
  Pig ear cooked Hunan style. This was not disclosed until after I'd eaten. {Lesson learned: not all mystery meats taste like chicken.}
• What do you cook when home alone?
  Pasta with pesto, golden raisins, capers, pine nuts, parmesan, and sauteed onions - or - poached eggs on toast. In other words, things that don't require a trip to the store or too many pans.
• Your most treasured kitchen possession:
  My KitchenAid Stand Mixer {in Boysenberry} and LeCreuset French Oven.
• Your ideal meal:
  If it starts with cava and ends with dessert and espresso, I'm happy. {And very, very talkative.}
• Something you'd like a chance to eat or cook:
  Cooking something in a foreign country, with a local as my guide, would be an extraordinary experience. I think food is better with a story behind it.
• The number of bottles of wine you own:
  It fluctuates based on the type of week I'm having. {Is that bad?}
• The ideal number of guests for a dinner party is:
  Six is the magic number.
• Kitchen pet peeve:
  When early dinner guests invade the kitchen...just thinking about it gets me totally wound up!
• Your favorite cookbook:
  I recently started collecting some fancy schmancy cookbooks, but I have a special attachment to The LaGrange Junior League Cookbook, a college graduation gift from a friend. It's full of heart, lacks any semblance of food snobbery, and calls for lots of bacon and butter.