Why i love to cook

I’m not a chef, but I love to create amazing meals for my family and friends.  It’s a complement to me if my children call me to ask me for a recipe or how I make something.   I love to cook, and I truly feel that it shows in all the things I make for the family.  I have a recipe book that are all of my favorite recipes and inherited recipes.  Some are changed, the original is there, but here are notes as to what I did differently.  

See, I grew up with a mother who has every recipe under the sun, but they were used as “guidelines” and never followed.  Thanks to years in the military, my mixed heritage and general love of ethnic food, I can cook pretty much any type of food.  

Recently with a new fun doctored order change in diet, we’ve been living more low carb.  Embracing a low carb diet as an Italian isn’t exactly easy but we have found that the change was a lot easier than expected with flexibility and adapting recipes we loved into new recipes we love. 

Why “Chocolate Tattooed Kitchen”?

My daughter gave me the name.  She told me, “mom, you love Chocolate, you love tattoos, so why not?” So I call my kitchen what I love. So there is no real mystery.  Just facts.  This recipe page is dedicated to my children.  It’s an online version of a book I use regularly.  

The inscription of the book reads…

It’s a collection of all my favorite recipes and reactions.  I’ve been gathering them over the years.  I’ve improved them, borrowed them, changed them, and always remember the person who gave me the recipe as an honor to them.  I’ve always created them with loving hands and I have always felt it showed. 

My love for food, my love to entertain and my love to feed the flock are the driver for this book/blog.  

Keep these recipes – cherish them.  Change them.  Just always this of me when you make them.  

💕 Mom

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