So, all of my cooking buddies from online recipe share/ review sites have food blogs. I guess I will be the last of them to jump on the bandwagon. I'm not really one to go surfing blogs... I'm so busy reading Cook's Illustrated (If you aren't subscribed, get it. It's amazing) and taking notes. Not to mention all of the experimentation in the kitchen! But anyways, before I go crazy with this thing I suppose I should give a little bit of background information.
My name is Jessica, and ever since I was little, I have loved food. I have struggled with my weight since the age of eight because of that simple fact. Luckily, the good Lord above also blessed me with an extraordinary gift: the ability to run long distances. I run track at an NCAA Division 2 school, where I pole vault and high jump. This keeps me from waddling and jiggling.
I am definitely one of those cooks that uses whatever needs to be used to make it taste good. Forget all that low-fat crap. I want taste, I want flavor, I want a REACTION. I want CARBS! Give me savory, creamy, sweet, I'll be happy. Take that tart, flat, dry crap and get outta here.
My ultimate goal would be to open a New Orleans style Italian bakery here in Huntsville. I would like to name it after my mother's family. I have a vision that I believe would be very familiar to patrons of New Orleans coffee houses and bakeries, but would be new and refreshing to Huntsville natives. I would like to feature beignets, croissants, buttermilk drops, cannoli, eclairs, king cakes, doberge cakes, french bread loaves, and more in tribute to the Crescent city, but I would also like to offer daily lunch specials and italian pastry and breads. To achieve this goal, I plan to finish my bachelor's in Finance and then proceed to the Art Institute to become a master pastry chef. I have already started studying several aspects of culinary arts... I am always experimenting! So this is where I will talk about my successes and (god forbid) my failures.
