I'm a recovering chef and serial entrepreneur/software engineer who's lived in rather too many places. Wherever I am, I love to check out local farmer's markets, and try out local cuisine (both eating and learning to prepare). I've cooked professionally in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Santa Fe, and Seattle. I've opened a restaurant, had a catering company, started tamale and vegan sausage companies(not at the same time) and been a private chef. I'd consider myself a poultry-fish-a-tarian. I've also lived in New Orleans, Mexico, Portugal, and Spain.I love to cook and bake. These days I'm baking a lot of sourdough. Quality ingredients to me are the absolute foundation of any recipe, so even if I don't mention it, you can assume I'm using local and organic wherever possible. But in a pinch, you do what you gotta do and I get that.Special note:I currently live in a postage-stamp sized cottage in the woods outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I don't even have an oven or stove. So everything I post here has been prepared using hotplates or an air fryer. For reals. Maybe a pizza oven or smoker (if I have the fortitude to fire those up).As of 2025 I am just starting to post recipes here, we will see how it goes!