Curling Up With a Good Cook

Lately, the only time I feel fulfilled is when I am in the kitchen whipping up a good meal.  It touches on all of my senses and is satisfying on so many levels.  For instance, the smell of a big pot of chili simmering away in the kitchen reminds me of the first time I made it for a pot luck lunch at work, and how everyone loved it.  Making Sunday breakfast had been a tradition in my home growing up, and back then I vowed that it would be a tradition that I would carry on, and every Sunday when I am cooking breakfast, I am reminded of the times when my mom would be playing her gospel music, making pancakes, sausage, eggs and such, and us getting ready for church, and then enjoying that wonderful breakfast.  After a hard day's work, I can come home and fix a full course meal and find that too be soooo relaxing.  I've lived and breathed food and creating and experimenting in the kitchen since I was very young.  Sometimes things would come out great, and then sometimes not so great, lol, but I vowed to learn everything to be a success in the kitchen.  It's funny because the only things that I could watch (on the rare occassion I was on punishment) were Jeopardy and my cooking shows.  Back then it was Yan Can Cook, Justin Wilson and Julia Child's Cooking shows, Caio Italia, and The Frugal Gourmet.  I was glued and always tuned into those shows back then just as I am now to all shows food orientated, the new Cooking Channel, everything Food Network and the Travel Channel's Food Paradise's and Man vs. Food.  My ultimate goal is to open a bed and breakfast and expand my culinary world above and beyond.