Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. I’m Tiffany, the content creator and chef for A Foodie at Home. I’ve always had a passion for all things food. I may have an obsession with recipe and cookbook collecting. I’ve got boxes and boxes of recipes, torn out of magazines and newspapers, or printed out from any of a hundred websites. I need a new bookshelf to hold the cookbooks. I have cookbooks dedicated to a specific technique, like canning, or a certain course, like dessert (I’m probably a certified chocoholic, if one could certify such a thing). I’ve got books that were bought because I really like the chef who wrote them. My favorite category of cookbooks is probably books devoted to food from a specific country or region. Any country or region, I can’t narrow it down. Some of these books I’ve collected while in a particular country or region, thinking that the recipes are more likely to be authentic that way. I walked around the streets of Venice for ages to find a bookstore that had a book of Venetian recipes written in English. Ironically, I rarely follow a recipe to the letter. For me, all of these amazing books and magazine pages are inspiration. I use recipes as a suggestion or starting point, and add my own twist to just about everything.
I am lucky enough to have my dream job- mom! My husband and I have four boys- ages 21,12, 9, and 5- so my house is far from calm. Some days dinner is cooked while dodging pretend light sabers and blasters as the kids play Star Wars in the kitchen. The two youngest boys have decided to take picky eating to a new level. Some days the only thing I can confidently get them to eat is plain pasta and a glass of water. It makes meal planning interesting. For just about every meal idea I have I need to rethink it through the eyes (or mouths) of the picky two, which means either immediately amending whatever idea I just had or committing to cooking something else along with it. Lately I’ve been trying to grow fruits and veggies in the backyard. There have been some interesting outcomes, like cantaloupe the size of a tennis ball and onions that looked like pencils. I’m still somewhere on the learning curve for edible gardening.
We’ve lived in southern Texas for around 15 years. That is to say, that we’ve had a house in southern Texas for around 15 years, which we live in sometimes. In between the times we are living at home, my husband’s expat position has taken us to live in Nigeria and Malaysia, and now France. I love the adventure of expat life, and I really love experiencing first hand the food from different cultures. A Foodie at Home is a collection of my food adventures.