How This Came About

Hello everyone! This is an exciting moment for me to start this blog. My name is Melinda and one day when I called home, my mom told me she would be visiting her sister and mother for about two months during the summer. I wish I could go with her, but she leaves before I'm done with school and would be coming home after I start my summer internship, so I need to stay home and feed the rest of my family. It will only be my dad (who will be working), my little brother (who is too young to cook), and me, but it's still a daunting task ahead of me to satisfy their appetite.

I didn't start cooking until this school year since my dorm has a kitchen. Sadly, my mom's home cooking are done from memory and I don't have a cookbook to follow, so that's where the adventure begins! Being a novice and having to feed my family this summer, hopefully I'll get a more generous grocery budget and get to let my creativity go and make any recipe I have or find on Pintrest (or dare I try and imitate my mother's wonderfully talented cooking). It'll definitely be interesting to see how my picky little brother will react or what my dad thinks about my creations (although he no longer cooks, he worked at his brother's restaurant for years before he got married).

Enjoy this blog as I document entrees, snacks, deserts, and who knows what I'll make this summer and for the years to come as well :)