tasb

about me

I work for a small restaurant, attached to a gas station on a native reservation. I am a professional cook by training and trade. This is a picture of the highway sign and a picture of the front of the building. Even though I am trained to make mile high food I prefer to cook in a small restaurant, and putting out plates containing burgers and fries, I have come to like interacting with my customers and joking around with them, but there are days I wish I could just cook and not deal with people.



My passion is cooking, I have been baking and cooking since I was young. If I didn't I wouldn't be alive, because I had two working parents they would come home tired, so us kids would have to cook our own meals.

Here some pictures. The first one I took few months ago, it isn't the updated picture. The food processor is broken and replaced with the one in the second picture. I call the mixer and the processor my new babies. Maybe one of these days I will clean up my kitchen and show you it. lol. In the second picture you can see the thing that has saved my sanity, a 6 outlet surge protector that doesn't have a cord, just ignore my dirty toaster. I was only trying to get a picture of my mixer and food processor but didn't zoom in enough. But at least now I don't to unplug something to plug in something. I usually have my toaster, mixer, food processor in there and on days I work I may get my crock pot and rice cooker in there. Of course I don't get all of them going at the same time.



I am picky about my cooking job, things have to be perfect with me. Especially when making recipes. It may come from going to cooking school, that is where you learn presentation is everything, and how to follow recipes to a T. It drives me batty when things aren't followed and when things get moved around. In a professional kitchen you know where to reach for certain things and if they aren't there when you are busy it throws you off. It is your "mise en place". DON'T mess with the MEEZ. But you know what I am not this picky at home. I can't be because hubby puts things away and I have to search for them, I guess this is what I get for working full-time I have to let go of some of my pickiness.

I feel I am a serious person but everyone seems to know me for my smile and my giggle. Maybe I smile more than I know I do.

Favorite Foods:

I got my KitchenAid Professional HD in April 06, LOVE it. I just got my food processor recently, getting the hang of using it for more than just grating cheese.

At work I am famous I guess for my pizzas (using frozen crust,and pre-made stuff, because I am not cheap with the toppings and I don't use too much either) and my Bannock. I am a chef at heart and if people make me mad I will withhold somethings, like my bannock, I have been too busy to make it and people have been getting mad at me for not making it so I stopped. Until one day, a lady phoned in when I was still at work and working over-time cleaning and buttered me up, told me she thought she had died and gone to heaven when she had a piece of my bannock, so I made her a batch. You just need to know how to talk to a cook.

At home I cook basic foods. The family doesn't like spicy and is iffy on new foods, so most days I throw some veggies, meat, seasonings, and maybe a can of soup or some water in the crock pot and that is dinner. I am trying to get all of us to be a little more adventurous when eating.

My favorite cookbooks are Better Homes and Gardens, it was my first named cookbook when I was 18 and since I have bought 2 more, including the pink plaid one. And I have all three, even though my first one is all taped up I can't get myself to get rid of it.

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