About Me and About This Site

Hi all!  I'm Brooke.  A married mother of 3 living in my home state of Minnesota.

I have 5 years catering experience and more years under my belt as an event planner.  While I did not go to culinary school, I learned the basics from my mom, one of the best home cooks I know!  My skills were strengthened when I joined the catering department of my church in Chicago and I worked on that team, spending a good amount of hours in the professional kitchen for 5 years.  

I love nothing more than cooking a dish for my family and friends that will knock someone's socks off. I'm a recipe follower at first, but I love to tweak recipes to make them better, to make them my own.  

I've had plenty of cooking failures, believe me!  Ask my husband how I ruined Deviled Eggs.  Yes, I ruined something as simple as easy as Deviled Eggs, people!  Inedible!

This site will hopefully become one of your favorite places to visit when you are looking for a tried and true family recipe, a menu plan for the week, or a Hospitality Meal - a meal to bring to friends and family when they need some comfort food, be it for the birth of a baby, the adoption of a child, a job loss, an illness or surgery in the family, a death in the family, or just simply for no other reason than to be nice and to make someone's day.

Wouldn't we all love a meal brought to us once a week, 
even just for the heck of it?  Let's start that trend.