"Eat to live not live to eat."
I agree with that statement. However, I do look forward to enjoying a good meal, be it breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert or second breakfast, lunch, dinner or dessert (like J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbits!).
I've been baking since I was eight and influenced by bakers and cooks in my family. My grandfather owned a bakery in Hawaii serving beautiful breads and pastries. My mom is a talented, self-taught family cook with influences from my abuelita and tias (from my father's Spanish side).
From a very early age I've enjoyed pouring through cookbooks and food catalogs. I didn't know it then, but I was eating with my eyes. After earning a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Information Technology, I looked into attending Culinary School. The price for tuition was pretty steep so I continued developing marketable skills in technology during the timely explosion of the Internet and Web. For the last decade I've done well as a programmer, Web applications developer/designer.
Teenie Cakes also gives me an avenue to incorporate and further practice food photography.
I'm enjoying all the foodie information, resources and social networking available on the Internet. This blog is both a journal for myself and to share recipes I create, try and experiment plus some of my culinary adventures I experience in bakeries, restaurants, festivals, wine tastings, etc.
Teenie Cakes
The blog started off with the idea of cupcakes. I had ideas of grandeur in mind that one day I'd open my own cupcakery. "Teenie Cakes" is a name my Husbandry called my cupcake and muffin treats and so it was how the Teenie Cakes name came to be. As I don't bake a lot of cupcakes these days (otherwise, I'd be larger than a house!), the Teenie Cakes blog has evolved to further reaches of food. It now makes more sense to just share an everyday girl's foodie discoveries and kitchen adventures.
Please join me as I continue... Baking, Cooking, Wine and other Foodie Musings.
Teenie Cakes
