JennT1981

JennT1981 is a Sacramento-based homemaker and aspiring entrepreneur in catering and personal cheffing. She is also a prolific and dedicated recipe developer, working cleverly around the contents of her pantry (cabinet vibrations, her boyfriend calls them) and garden to create and document new recipes on a daily basis. She deftly repurposes stale croissants into a luxurious Dark Chocolate Chip Croissant Citrus Custard Pudding and day-old mashed potatoes into Left-Over Mashed Spud Cakes. Perhaps most ingeniously, when she realized just how tasty the baby food was that she was making for her daughter, it started doing double duty as a staple soup and sauce for the grown-ups in the house! Check out JennT1981's profile page and fan her here.

Read her profile Q&A below:

• What is the strangest food you have ever eaten?
  paté
• What do you cook when home alone?
  Usually some kind of pasta dish...or left-overs if there are any.
• Your most treasured kitchen possession:
  My knife.
• Your ideal meal:
  Authentic Italian or Mexican...or I do love California cuisine, especially in the Napa Valley...but wait, sushi is a favorite!
• Something you'd like a chance to eat or cook:
  Anything that comes out of kitchen stadium on Food Network!
• The number of bottles of wine you own:
  Full or empty?
• The ideal number of guests for a dinner party is:
  12...if I had a dining area to accomodate that! For now...the four of us!
• Kitchen pet peeve:
  Having my prepared ingredients messed with...food being wasted!!!
• Your favorite cookbook:
  All of Biba Caggiano's, of course Mastering the Art of French Cookery, all the Food Network cookbooks, my own that I am currently building!