JustJanS

about me

Thanks for visiting my page and thanks too to any of you who take the time to make, review or photograph one of my recipes.

I came to Recipezaar 7 years ago looking for a duck salad recipe. Bergy answered my request, I took a look around the site and joined that day.

The photo at top is me with husband Russell. He was a widower with 3 teenage boys and I was a single parent with two little boys when we met over 17 years ago. We now have 5 wonderful grown men (my baby is 24 almost), 4 beautiful partners (we finally got the girls) 2 special grandsons, and count ourselves so lucky. The night Russ and I met, we stayed up until 6am talking about food and wine and 17 years later, we are still doing it!

Russ and I love food-we wake up thinking about dinner and go to sleep remembering it. I especially like light, bright Asian food and if it has duck in it, that's an added bonus. We are keen fisher people and keep ourselves well supplied with fresh fish, squid, crabs and fresh yabbies (crawfish).

We spent 3 years and two months travelling Australia but have recently moved into a brand new villa. I have been so excited seeing our furniture, paintings, crockery, cutlery and serving ware come out of storage. It's like meeting up with old friends to me!

Fer over three years we managed with 2 wine, 2 champagne and 2 water glasses, 2 coffee cups and a small amount of Corelle dinner ware with a couple of the larger bowls doubling as pasta or salad bowls.

I am a bit ashamed now at the amount of stuff we have-maybe 100 glasses, 30 coffee cups, and a serving bowl for every occasion.


Why did I give you the stars that I gave you???
5 stars=awsome, fantastic, amazing, nothing to complain about
4 stars=very good, but I added something, felt it needed something, the recipe wasn't particularly well written or it really wasn't awesome, fantastic or amazing, just very good
3 stars=it was OK
2 stars=it was forgetable
1 star=no one could/would eat it tonight, tomorrow or ever again

Favorite Foods:

See above

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