About me

Hi. I'm Jessica. When I graduated college back in 2009 I hopped a plane to Barbados with one of my besties and left my troubles far behind. When I returned, I had a beautiful Caribbean tan, no job, and no worries. Hey, I'd just come back from the Caribbean where no worries was the name of the game. In the months that followed the tan faded, but my jobless state remained. I worked a few hours a week tutoring, but it wasn't enough. I was bored. Very. Bored. So in order to fill the gaps, I did the most logical thing imaginable...I became best friends with Lifetime Movie Network and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. When that was still not enough to occupy my time (I ran out of Dr. Q episodes), I started making dinner for my family a few times a week. Apparently looking for a "real job" hadn't occurred to me. I was suffering from a bad case of denial with a big fat capital "D". One evening as I was creating a delicious culinary masterpiece, I mindlessly said, "Man! I wish I could just get paid to cook for people." A few weeks later my mom brought me a wanted ad for a "private chef." She had had enough of my hopeless jobless state. So I applied. I interviewed. After nine months of being unemployed, I was hired. But there was a catch...They claimed to be allergic to everything except maybe water. The list goes something like this: NO...gluten, dairy, soy, peanuts, cashews, pistachios, pine nuts, pumpkin seeds, mango, hazelnuts, and pineapple. The list continues to grow.

 So, it's not my dream job. I'm still working on that... 

 I started this blog as a way to chronicle my experiences at work (they are many, and sometimes down right CRAZY!) as well as share my (sometimes obsessive) love for delicious, healthy food. Since I follow a gluten free diet myself, all my recipes are gluten free. And it is my goal to rid the world of the dreaded comment, "This is good...for gluten free." and let people realize that sometimes things are good just because they are. 

"For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land - a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills."

Deuteronomy 8:8