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Welcome to Cooking in my Genes

Published: March 15, 2015 | Updated: March 16, 2015 | By Jess | 2 Comments

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I think about food all the time.

When I reminisce about my history thus far, it always seems to come back to sharing one’s love through food. Family, friends & food.

A lot of my experiences and most favourite memories from growing up are linked to food so I decided to explore my love of food & family further.

One side of my family is of German heritage and I grew up eating my Oma’s cooking on a regular basis.  I remember vividly the tradition of ‘afternoon coffee’ where at around 3PM each day meant we all gathered together when we were at my Oma & Opa’s (Grandma & Grandpa’s) for coffee & cake.

Memorable Christmas and Easter dinners were filled with turkey and many of my favourite fixings which my Mom still makes to this day – specifically ‘Kloesse,’ a traditional dumpling that is ever so perfect beside turkey and home made gravy.

I remember growing up there were certain meals we had like clockwork – ‘Pizza Wednesdays’ for example and I also loved the meatballs my mom ‘made’ for us (full story on these ‘homemade’ meatballs still to come).

From experiences or trips, from family or friends, I garner food inspiration in a lot of places.  My husband calls it ‘free-styling’ when I pretty much make up a dinner from random fridge ingredients but to me it’s sort of normal, I love being creative in the kitchen.

That is what Cooking in my Genes is  all about – I’ll share with you my take on the recipes I grew up with, family stories, foodie adventures as well as what I love to cook now for family & friends.

I hope you’ll come on this journey with me.

xo jess

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  1. appehtite

    April 8, 2015 at 9:12 pm

    Congrats on you first post. We love freestyle cooking too so can’t wait to see more posts!!!

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    • Jess

      April 26, 2015 at 5:12 pm

      Thanks for your note! We look forward to sharing more posts with you!

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