Hi! Thanks for stopping by. I’m Kris.
I’m a career Army officer, but this isn’t a military blog. In fact, it’s the opposite – it’s a {mostly} food blog about cooking and life on our home front.
Consider this my online recipe box and kitchen table, where you can drop on in for one of my favorite Army traditions – sharing good food with good friends that we all know we whipped together at the last minute out of whatever was in our pantry at the time but tastes like we spent all day working on it! We all know there are going to be last minute guests, a potluck we forgot about, a family in our organization who just had a baby and needs a freezer meal stash, or some other occasion where we have to have those go-to quick recipes that will feed a couple, a couple families, or a couple dozen.
Last minute entertaining is a truth we never mention, but it’s what makes us ask, after the dishes are cleared, after the wine glasses are empty, after a game or two has been played or we’ve told a story or two, where in the world you got that recipe. We all know it’s great, we all know it probably comes from a box of this, a dash of that, and a couple cans of whatever, and we love that unless we knew that, we’d never know it. And it’s quickly scribbled on a recipe card and handed around.
It’s definitely the real life version of the Friends we know that they know, and they know we know we know, and they don’t know that we know they know we…you get the idea.
I spent my first twelve years in the Army going to Army spouse functions as my own spouse and learned the tricks of the trade from some of the best entertainers you could find. When my husband Scott came along, I still ended up going to those to learn more trade secrets, because suddenly I had my own and his co-workers, office parties, pot-lucks, and other last minute get-togethers to cook for. Add our soon-to-be two-year-old to the mix, and if I’m not at work, I’m in the kitchen.
I love it. It’s my favorite way to de-stress after a crazy day. I’m pretty sure there are very few problems in life you can’t solve with a glass of wine in one hand, a wooden spoon stirring pasta in the other, and the happy sounds of people gathered in your kitchen and Jack Johnson playing.
I’ve been honing my culinary skills since I could reach the counter, helping to prep family favorites for friends, dinner parties, and enough breakfast to fuel a working ranch. I’ve worked in an out of Italian restaurants, South African restaurants, local culinary schools, and I’ve even whipped up a dish at a Michelin star restaurant {no, not as an employee, but still}. You’ll see a few of those recipes pop up in here on occasion, but the majority of the food you’ll see are the quick and easy dishes I whip up to feed my family and friends, take to potlucks, wrap up and send to work, or ship off to friends who are in places where a homemade baked goodie is an indescribable blessing.
So this is life – and cooking – on the home front.
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Thanks for visiting, and happy cooking!
