I am by no means a chef. In fact, there are many more failures than successes. There is always something to adjust or tweak when it comes to the final dish. But sometimes I have good ideas and I definitely have a passion for being in the kitchen. It's calming in a way that sometimes nothing else is. It's a focused chaos with intensely hot stoves and sharp knives (both of which get to the better of me almost every time!)
I am originally from Texas but I now live in Sweden. I didn't start cooking until a few months before I moved to Sweden and even then it was just baking pies. My husband taught me how to make my first marinara sauce.
When I moved to Sweden I realized that a lot of the pre-made ingredients you could buy in the States weren't really available here. I also realized that there was no good Tex Mex and that I didn't like most of the restaurants in our city. So I started to cook. My first few meals were spaghetti and roasted roots. I love beets.
I'm a vegetarian so almost every meal here will be vegetarian. Sometimes I'd like to try meat again, just to see what it's like. Like the time I ate a piece of bacon chocolate because it was too crazy to not try (I then spit out the bacon bits). I've been vegetarian for awhile now (over five years) so I don't really see myself eating meat again anytime soon. I don't feel limited in what I cook mainly because I've always ever cooked vegetarian food.
Over the years I've branched out in both cooking and baking. I'm more drawn to Tex Mex cuisine and the foods I find comforting from home than I am to the Swedish cuisine. But I have to thank Sweden for teaching me about seasonality, local foods, and this DIY attitude that almost all Swedes have. I guess my goal is to try to combine both cultures in a way that produces something awesome.
Ok, that's it for now.
