me, my blog, and what's to come

I am a food lover! I don't know really how it started. I've been asked many times if it was my mom or my dad that taught me too cook, and as I think about it my answer is always neither. They both are good cooks and they each have something they make better than me for dad it is omelettes ( well really eggs in general) and for mom it is her pizza it is just something special. Of course I made cookies with mom when I was little but I don't ever remember them teaching me any of that. It started about freshman year I just started to like to cook so naturally I started watching alot of cooking shows and it seemed fairly easy to pick up on techniques or ideas and make my own stuff with it. I did finally get some instruction the summer before my senior year, working at a fly fishing lodge PRO Outfitter up by Ovando. Many people don't know the place exists and if you do know chances are you know how nice of a place it really is. Right on the North fork of the blackfoot river it is this lodge with a couple of ponds near by and a bunch of wall tents so the rich people that stay can feel like they went camping in Montana but I don't think it's camping if you have wood floors, heaters, and overstuffed feather beds. But anyway the real luxury was the four course meals we served they are meals I still talk about to this day in fact I was telling my wife about the herb crusted filet mignon with a blue cheese and horseradish cream sauce just yesterday. Well I started out there as a maintenance man and lawn boy but I told them I really wanted to cook and after coming in one afternoon after mowing the lawns I made better tart shells than the girls they had doing it (no offense girls) I got to be the afternoon baker and assistant chef to Michael Carlucci from New York. It started out with me prepping the meats and salads you know doing all the peeling and chopping and such to by the end of the summer I did most of the cooking and michael took the bow to the guests at the end of the night, but he sure taught me alot and I loved that summer. Since then I've continued to cook as much as I could. I have way more cook books than any 23 year old man needs but I'm always looking for more. Although I don't really know why Cause I can't even remember the last recipe I followed but they always give good ideas. I also have a thing for rolling pins and wood bowls I know that sounds weird but I do I only have one rolling pin but I have dibs in on a couple of peoples when they die. I do have a good wood bowl I bought. Nothing fancy I just decided everybody needs a good bowl to make dough by hand and I love it. Well that's enough ranting for now I'm really just starting this blog because I don't have a job and I am tired of feeling worthless because of it so I decided I needed something to do and I figured it would get me to make some of those things I've been wanting to make for a while. I'm going to try to post a couple of times a month but we'll see how it goes probably sometimes more sometimes less. I'll try and add recipes and pictures to the posts but just to warn you the recipes will be kind of vague. That's just how I work. Some times I will probably post about stuff I ate somewhere else or chime in my opinion on things but we will see I'm not real sure yet but I think it will be fun.