My Food Journey

I swear I have been obsessed with learning how to cook ever since I watched Eddies Million Dollar Cook-off when I was 7. While it took a few years before I finally realized I can't bake for shit, I learned that cooking was a whole different battlefield. Cooking was messy and random, a little bit like myself. Yet at the same time cooking was like an art form. Ever since I was little I loved creating things, whether it be painting or drawing or sculpting, it was like that was the only thing that could completely shut my brain up and let me forget about everything. Eventually, I took a couple years off from creating, due to time, mostly.

When I moved into my first apartment, at nineteen, I was Pinterest obsessed. Looking back on it, I made the most disgusting food combinations, like barbeque chicken pop-tarts (yes, that's a real thing, and yes, I ate it) or flamin' hot Cheetos mac n' cheese. So my culinary experience started with humble beginnings, made of munchies. No matter what I made though cooking kind of felt like a mix of the things I loved the most, food and art. I could put the two together and make something not only aesthetically pleasing, but it would taste great too (even if I ended up in a sodium coma). When I was cooking I suddenly felt that same focus I felt from creating art. Fast forward to four years later, after gaining about ten pounds, I decided to start making more balanced meals and documenting them on my food Instagram @d_lyssious. It was perfect, the name worked, I loved being able to create the perfect shot from the perfect dish, and my friends were always super supportive and uplifting.

Cooking, and food overall has become one of my top passions. Going out to eat is a full experience now, I want to go home and try the dishes out myself, tweak and improve them. I often think about if I had a restaurant- what would the menu consist of? All of it has become therapeutic to me. I am excited for you to follow along, through successful recipes and the failures (sometimes cookies are better advertised as scones). To all my Gordon Ramsey's and all my amateurs,

Cheers!

Lyssious