Chef on the coast

about me

I live on the Oregon Coast with husband and four boys. I am able to stay at home with them and hold down the fort. I have many cookbooks which I enjoy searching through for our family favorites. I am my own boss - with my skin care business through Mary Kay (for 3 years now), I love to quilt, crochet, bake, read, garden, watch the rain (which happens quite frequently here) and play with my kids.

I am passionate about canning, canning, canning. I will admit I like "admiring" all the hard work after the jars are placed on the shelves. hehee I am all for "if I can make it myself" I will. Yes...I am frugal. I also love to bake. Especially homemade bread. I will continue to do so until arthritis takes over my hands. Then I will use more of the mixer for the kneading part.
All recipes I post are ones I've made and are our famiy favorites.

I love pretty flowers. These flowers grace our yard every year. I could watch them all day long and be perfectly content!




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Favorite Foods:

My most favorite dishes to make are Chinese dishes. I am famous for Sweet and Sour Chicken and Crepes. My kids also request my waffles on a regular basis and my homemade pizza. My favorite restaurant would have to be a really good Chinese restaurant.

I also like my great-grandma's spaghetti sauce with a thick slice of garlic bread. Mmmmmmm. A nice stack of buttermilk pancakes with butter and syrup are pretty tasty too...
So is a nice thick blackened steak. And a nice warm cinnamon roll straight from the oven. Or a hot bowl of black bean soup and breadsticks on a cold winter evening. Definitely toasted oatmeal bread with homemade jam tops my list as well....

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