I try to think and remember where did my love for food begin? Growing up food was my mother's way of loving us. I see her loving others with food and realized that's how I developed my love/hate relationship with food or my eating disorder. Yes, I call it a disorder because it got to a point where my enjoyment for food could have been unhealthy. I remember being in college and living with the philosophy of 'Eat to Live and Live to Eat.' Scary, I know. I believe that I am in a healthy place with food, I love trying different recipes and experimenting with my baking. I by no means a cook or baker but there are some things that I have found to get the thumbs up or approval from friends and family. Here are a some of those recipes. There are restaurants that it seems like everyone goes to - even those I haven't been to I would recommend to others from what I have heard and they have been more than please. My goal is to make it to all these restaurants myself - so unless I eat there and like it you will not read about them here. Any local favorites you have?