Our kitchen adventures begin....

    October 4, 2014

Tucked away in the green foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountain range, the village of Los Gatos is packed with charm. Its restaurants, cafes, bars and art galleries are known throughout the San Francisco Bay area as well as its vintage homes, parks, and walking/biking trails. I have been lucky enough to call it home for the past thirty-nine years.
    When my granddaughter Alexis, better known as Lexi, came to live with me June, 2013 to attend a nearby community college, I had no idea I was not only gaining a live-in grandchild but a cooking partner as well. I should have known Lexi would be an asset in the kitchen. Her mother is a great cook, gardener, craftswoman and all-round creative person.Follow her at http://cytels.blogspot.com/
    The first hint I had that Lexi and I would make a good cooking team was the first time I started to make a meal.
    “Can I help with that?” she asked.
    “Sure,” I answered. “What would you like to do?” She took over the chopping of the vegetables and our cooking duet began.
    Lexi is a singer songwriter too and it makes me smile to hear her sweet voice and guitar filling the townhouse. I had lived alone for so long I had almost forgotten what life sounded like.
    My granddaughter and I share a passion for art. We both paint, draw, sketch, and take tons of photos. Since Lexi moved in, we have another love, Hobbes, a ginger Tabby I brought home from the Humane Society about a year ago. Hobbes often sneaks his little pink nose into whatever we are doing in my small, but efficient kitchen. Don’t be surprised if he photo-bombs some of the pictures I take of our work.
    I intend to include recipes, shortcuts, tips, maybe even a few mini art lessons in My Kitchen on Mill Road. I might even include a poem or essay occasionally.