Kate T
@Kate Travis
My sister Dorothy and I love to cook and experiment. We started off as cooking buddies because she is a vegetarian and we had to adapt everything we made from cookbooks. Now I do a lot of vegetarian cooking on my own. My husband loves to cook too. He used to fish on a commercial boat in Alaska, where he made almost all the meals for the crew. He would even make chocolate cake or lasagne, in a tiny galley with a diesel stove. Sometimes I catch him swaying back and forth at the stovetop, as if he were still cooking on a boat. When I'm not searching by ingredients for new recipes on Recipezaar, I most often reach for Joy and Cook's Best Recipes when I'm ready to try something new. Runners-up include Moosewood, Damon Fowler and Rick Bayless. I enjoy a cooking challenge, like a complicated ethnic recipe or trying to recreate something I had in a restaurant. But the most delicious dishes always seem to be the 'easy' ones with simple, fresh ingredients.