recipes

There are never enough cookbooks to say you have too many. If you are just starting on your cooking journey and you are starting your collection of recipes. Are you a “Foodie”/”Food Enthusiast”? You then can never say you have too many cookbooks and recipes, RIGHT???? Or is it just me? My cookbook collection used to take up two 5-shelf bookcases in my living room.  OK, so some of the space was taken up with cooking magazines and binders full of printed recipes.  But they count, don’t they?  I even had an old Cooking Light Cookbook (back from the late 80’s to the early 1990’s)Continue

A finished roasted chicken

I pride myself as being a fairly intelligent person and very adept at cooking (duh, I’m doing a cooking blog after all).  Heck, I have an Associate’s Degree in Hospitality and most recently my Bachelors in Business Management.  I’ve been cooking since I was seven years old (I won’t tell you my age now), owned my own personal chef business and was a manager for of one those dinner prep stores.  So one would think I could cook a roast chicken with my eyes closed right? Wrong. It should be simple.  Buy a chicken, season it, preheat the oven, and put the bird in theContinue