When Zo and I started dating we had known one another for a few years. I knew she loved food as much as I and I decided due to my lack of charm that was the way to win her over. I planned out for our second date to be a walk by the river that just so happen to pass my town home. I asked her if she wanted to stop in and get a drink and some lunch. My first meal for her was an utter disaster! Being that she was a vegetarian at the time I had planned an imported mushroom white sauce to have over pasta. It was all going great until...
According to my mother, as a young child I was happiest when she would plop me on the kitchen floor to play with nothing more than a Dutch oven and a wooden spoon. As she cooked supper I would just bang away on my kitchen drum laughing and grinning away. Soon enough I was pretending to cook on my sisters play oven and amazed with her Easy Bake Oven.As the years passed I was able to start creating more food than mess in the kitchen, so my...
"It's cooking for me!" That's what I say anytime Francis brings up Cooking for Zo in conversation. That's because, as you may have guessed, I'm the muse for this lovely site; I just sit around and look pretty, inspiring Francis to cook delicious things for me. Because we all know that I like to eat, always have.That's not to say that I can't pull my own weight in the kitchen. I have lots of warm memories of being dough-faced in my great-grandmother's...
(this is a rough draft recipe idea)The recipes come mostly from original ideas, ideas I've had while eating another meal or recipes I grew up cooking with my parents. Here is an example of an original recipe idea and what goes into creating it for the site.1. First I write down my base idea. (Ingredients, sauces, toppings)2. As I cook, I write down the amounts of items I used as well as add any items I decided the meal needed.3. I then...
Why in the world did we choose G, VG, GR, VGR and TF? Well early on we decided that we wouldn't post anything that we didn't enjoy. (There have been a couple times where one of us really enjoyed something and the other didn't, in those cases we give the meal an automatic G.)The ratings basically work like this; G-VG recipes are meals that we enjoyed, GR-VGR are recipes that we really enjoyed and TF rated meals are some of the best meals we've ever had, ever.There is a little more that goes into the taste ratings. For one I...
FrancisFrancis is the main breakfast/lunch/dinner recipe creator. He takes most of the photos (poorly,) writes all the posts and maintains the website.ZoAnnZo is the reason this site exists but she also makes recipes when Francis doesn't force her out of the kitchen! Her specialty around the kitchen is making desserts and baking other delicious goodies. When Francis has his hands full, she will shoots photos and edits posts as Francis blurts out changes. She is the invaluable taste tester and Food rater. All taste levels...
