Patty Mae

about me

I'm a software engineer living in Wilmington, Delaware. I'm originally from the South (north Florida), so I was raised on good old Southern cooking. I started cooking when I was 7 and have always loved to experiment and put my own twist on the dishes I make.

While traveling and living in different places I've discovered a number of wonderful cuisines - Cuban, Thai, Greek, Indonesian, Indian, et al. I have a few dishes from each cuisine that I do really well.

I love to experiment with recipes. One of my favorite things to do is figure out how a dish I like is made. If I have something at a restaurant that I really like I'll experiment at home until I come up with a creditable equivalent.

I'm pretty particular about the quality of ingredients I use in my cooking. I walk a line between convenience and aesthetics, with a little more emphasis on the aesthetics. Sometimes a can of cream of celery soup is a perfectly acceptable shortcut for the dish I’m making. On the other hand, I’d eat my silicone cookie sheet before I’d ever use margarine, canola oil, canned mushrooms (an abomination, IMO), "cooking" wine, or that lemon juice in a plastic lemon. For some things there just is no compromise.

All of the recipes I've posted here are original unless stated otherwise in the description.

Favorite Foods:

Cuban, Thai, Indian, Greek, Southern

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