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Comment by Eddie Jordan on October 19, 2012 at 12:36pm

Hello Paulette,

     

      This cookbook is 8 BY 11 spiral bound with 50 recipes printed in full color on 100 lb. paper with gloss cover and chapter dividers.

      The price is  $20. 87  + shipping and handeling. You can send me a check for $25.87 and I will autograf it and mail it to you. My address is  405 S. Maple Bristow Ok. 74010. GOD BLESS!!

Comment by Christine Leiser on October 20, 2011 at 12:01pm

Hi!  I'm Christine.  Originally from Long Island, New York, I've called Ocala, FL home since 1998.  I was a late bloomer when it comes to cooking.  I started after my first child was born and it wasn't so simple to get to a great restaurant for delicious food anymore. I've been blogging at ColorMePink! since 2002 and it has gradually become a foodie blog more than anything else. 

I love to explore new tastes, techniques, textures and regions of food and I love to combine new ideas with old favorites. I'm very involved in local, sustainable food sources and I love to share with and learn from other creative people. 

Comment by Stacey Rider on July 14, 2011 at 12:54pm

Hey from HOT Austin, Texas.... I am a self taught cook who grew up in England and was playing in my Mother's Pantry since I can remember when.   I love food and I love to cook with reckless abandon - and a lot of times without a recipe.

 

I created a food blog entitled the Four Points Foodie and am really enjoying being a food blogger.

 

Just filmed a pilot entitled Rider On Recipes that is currently being shopped out and oh, I'm a wife and Mom with 5 kids!   haha!

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Comment by Jayla Steven on April 12, 2011 at 7:17pm

Hello to everyone,

My name is Jayla, and I am a stay at home mom of two children. I enjoy cooking. I love to try new things and play around with food to see if I can come up with something that is wonderful for all to each. I enjoy summer and BBQ's. I watch all the cooking shows.. Top chef (and masters), anything that show the talent people bring to the table for cooking the Ideas they can master to make a dish out of anything. This has inspired me to reach beyond my own comfort zone  and take some extra risks when it comes to cooking. To never be afraid to try anything. I look forward to trying new and wonderful dishes that others have to offer. I look so forward to making new friends and enjoying some great food.

Comment by nikki meek on April 9, 2011 at 4:41pm

Hi everybody!,

   My name is nikki. I live in Idaho with my husband of 25 very patient and uinderstanding years...his not mine ; ).  Our organic son is off at university as a 2nd semester Freshman. We have a daughter aged 10.  We lived in Singapore for 2 years in 200-2001 and it was there my love for Asian food really reached it's zenith.  I learned of my fave cookbook author Charmain Solomon there. I was taking cooking classes there as well as all the countries we were blessed to visit at that time but it was her teaching me how to make the perfect Naan that taught me that and so much.

   I'm origially a southerner in fact my family has been in the south since 1635 when Edmund Jones immigrated from Burford England.  I value highly my cast iron skillets I make cornbread in....the right way just like it's done don home. But my love goh eating and cooking cajun food began in the 80's when I was living in New Orleans or NOLA going to nursing school at Charity. When I thik of comfort food I always fall back on gumbos and red beans and rice soup. I order my andouille from Jacobs in Laplace La at the end of the summer to stash in the freezer for the auumn- spring. My fave chef and cookbook author John Besh wasn't living there when I was but he is a slidell born and raised boy as southern as grits and gravy like myself and a heck of a cookbook author and has competed on Bravo's top chef and masterss too. His recipes are go to recipes for dong it the right way too!

  I love travel as I'm sure you were able to pick out in addition to cooking. Then again I also enjoy and love gardening. I was a Pediatric RN and did a few years in adult oncology till we came home from Singapore with a baby and 4th grader. 4th grader is now at college and Regan is in 4th grade so still doing the mom gig...the best job I'll ever have as well as the toughest. Just wanted to introduce myself and say hi...

Comment by Blackswan on February 11, 2011 at 11:07pm

Hello everyone,

I'm a great fan of CookingUpAStorminCa & Polly is a wonderful host.  Passionate about food, crazy over shopping, eccentric about travel, frenzy over Hello Kitty; that's me!

 

Luxury Indulgence is a one-stop blog by an ex-Flight Attendant, sharing years of Fine Dining, Luxury Shopping & Travel, adventurous Fusion Cooking experience, plus bringing you the latest Sale Events & Contests.

 

Pls visit My Cooking to check out Award-winning recipes with step-by-step pix instructions!

 

Thank you Polly, for giving me a chance to share my love for cooking with your readers here!
 

Comment by Shari Alexander on January 7, 2011 at 8:09am

Shari Alexander’s life reads like a cookbook, with the main ingredients: risk and adventure. After a successful career in the fashion business, Shari stopped dieting and graduated from the New York Restaurant School with a certificate in the culinary arts & restaurant management. She was one of the first women chefs in the fashionable Hamptons resort area of Long Island. Her intimate bistro in the seaside town of Sag Harbor, called “The Ship’s Galley,” was an instant hit and earned 3 stars from The New York Times, and a worldwide reputation due to her international clientele. Shari traveled and cooked extensively for 10 years, closing her restaurant every winter to learn about the regional cuisine and wines of Spain, Madeira, Portugal, Italy, and many other exotic ports of call.

Shari sold her restaurant and followed the sun to Florida, where she became catering director for Orange Blossom Catering in Sarasota and created The Banyan Cafe, a 200-seat destination restaurant on the grounds of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. She also began another career as a food and wine writer with her “Uncorked” and “DISH” columns for the Sarasota Herald Tribune’s Style Magazine, and was contributing editor for the Taste section of the Bradenton Herald and food and wine editor for West Coast Woman. She was listed in the Blue Book of Who’s Who in Florida.

Returning to New York after her Florida adventure, Shari became a partner in a 500-seat restaurant on Sag Harbor’s beautiful yacht marina. It was at this time that Shari met her future husband, John Bills, an opera singer with the Metropolitan Opera. In 2000, Shari and John joined their creativity and shared love of food and wine to create the Long Island Wine Gazette, a quarterly magazine featuring the wine industry of Long Island, now recognized as one of the important viticultural areas of the world. For five seasons the couple chronicled their food and wine adventures in this informative, entertaining, and highly successful journal.

In 2002 Shari and John were married and bought a 225-year-old mansion in New England and created The Red Maple Inn (www.theredmapleinn.com), quickly earning kudos from the Boston Globe and BOSTON Magazine, and named an Editors' Choice destination by the prestigious YANKEE Magazine.

Chef Shari Alexander felt the call of the exciting culinary world again in 2008. After three years of wintering in San Miguel de Allende, México, she and her partner Alberto Pacheco, another lover of gastronomy, created “Flavors & Magic,” A Culinary Adventure, an extraordinary week of fine dining in gorgeous chef-owned and world-class restaurants, evenings with sommeliers, cocktail parties in private mansions, haciendas, and the best historic San Miguel has to offer! Truly an “insider’s tour” of a lifetime!

Comment by Carl Lee Frye on October 11, 2010 at 7:07am

I always enjoy reading the recipes paulette posts on here and on facebook.Im going to see if our ministry founders wife would like to send me some of her recipes from india for me to post for her.I dont know if she does much cooking,but Ill ask.I used to cook a lot,but not as much now.Gosh,all the recipes posted on here sure sound great.you all make me so hungry LOL.Happy cooking everyone.

Comment by Paulette Le Pore Motzko on September 30, 2010 at 12:43am

Dear Linda,
I am so happy to hear that you set such a good role model for your sons that they now are in the food industry and cook in their families...passing the gift of cooking on to their children. :-)

I don't have any children but I would have been a good mother. (I taught kids of all ages piano for 20 years and sent them home to their mothers.) Cooking is a gift that you can give others-much in the way that you gave the gift to your sons.

You should tell them about this site too. I would love to see their recipes!

Polly Motzko

Comment by Linda Rogers on September 28, 2010 at 6:38pm

I am not in the food industry. I am just a woman that has always loved to cook. I am proud to say I have raised two sons that are the primary cooks in each of their households and their women love that fact. Both of my sons have worked in the food industry, one still does. I love to share my cooking with family. There is so much pleasure when you grow your own vegetables and herbs.

Comment by Carl Lee Frye on September 17, 2010 at 6:52am

I love to cook. I dont cook much anymore but when I do I make sure I have all the ingredience there before I start cooking.My grandfather was a cajun chef.He was the best in the business.He did a lot of cooking,and people did a lot of eating when he cooked,and it was HOT but good.I cant eat hot food anymore,but I can still cook it.Our orphans in south india only eat rice,fruits,and some vegatables. Every christmas we send them cookies,and candy.If you will look on my facebook page you can see pics of them.they are so precious.Some of them are HIV+.they mostley eat fruit,vegatables,and some rice.I feel so sad for them that they dont get to enjoy a whole meal,but god always supplies their needs.If anyone would like to send them cookies for christmas please email me at: night_watcher_2004@yahoo.com for more information.Thank you God bless you and happy cooking everybody HEHE hahahaha !!!!!!

Comment by Tracie Sims on August 31, 2010 at 5:34am

Well, lets see,... I just joined this site yesterday. At the moment I am a stay at home wife and mother of two 15 yr old girls and 10 & 11 yr old boys.. of course its my girl and boy and his girl and boy lol its awesome!!!! I have been cooking since I was 8 yrs old... Have always wanted to have my own restaurant but other things such as taking care of my family and money kept me from that... I have been a Master Hairstylist for 26 years but my passion is food. Cooking any kind from any country.. I do have my favorites and least favorites just like all of you guys...lol and I cant wait to share recipes and tips with yall... yes Im from Alabama I said "Yall".... so, I am looking forward to making new friends and sharing some of my favorites with people everywhere...

Comment by Carl Lee Frye on August 25, 2010 at 4:24pm

My name is Carl Frye.Im 51 years old,married 1 son.In my life I have had to learn to do for myself since my mother,grandparents,first,and second wife passed away.I taught myself to prepare food that I would enjoy eating.food that was simple easy and my own imagination.I was homeless for a time and had to survive the best way I could by prepareing food out of a can of chili,ramen noodles and canned food so my food would last,and I would share with other homeless people.I want to share what I learned myself and from people struggleing to get off the streets,and how they survived by prepareing a cheap but hearty meal.I hope you enjoy my recipes.Please dont laugh ok? I had to do what I had to do to survive,and with what I learned and cooked helped a lot of people survive as well.until next time happy cooking HA Ha Ha HE HE He!!!!!!!

Comment by Carl Lee Frye on August 25, 2010 at 3:25pm

The recipes I post may sound really aweful but they are good.I have cooked them at church functions and they went over so good I didint even get a bite of it.the recipes are simple,economical,and taste great.as soon as I figure out how to post my recipes on here I will start posting my first recipe.Remember,they sound aweful but I have had no complaints. Happy cooking He He He He Ha Ha Ha Ha !!!!!!!!

Comment by Paulette Le Pore Motzko on July 26, 2010 at 6:45pm