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About Me

Hello and welcome to my adventures in the kitchen!

I am not a chef, I do not have any training, I am not even that good of a cook, but I like cooking. I have a foodie instagram where I post what I cook (when I remember to do so).

I love trying out new recipes and challenging myself. I am a disaster in the kitchen and I often end up with my fingers bleeding or an entire pumpkin cream soup on the kitchen floor, yet nothing seems to keeps me away from the room where it happens! You might think "of course you cannot stay away, you have to eat", and it's true, but that doesn't mean I have to cook especially since I married a wonderful cook - most of the things I know, I learnt from him. So there is no need per se, just a desire that I cannot control - not even after I almost fainted when I sliced my finger in a mandoline; but I learnt my lesson and haven't used one ever since, I feel like there was probably another lesson I should've learnt - like using the safety thing that came with the mandoline, in which you stick the vegetable so your fingers are nowhere near the blades, but I like to live life dangerously!

As you can see, I ramble a lot! But I will keep it to a minimum when sharing recipes because I hate it when I look for a recipes online and I have to go through hundreds of paragraphs about God knows out to get to the damn recipe (apparently there is a copyright reason why food blogs talk a lot before giving you the recipe, no shade, no shade)! And I have another blog where I ramble, called Andreea's Nonsense because that's pretty much what it is - plus a lot of posts about books.

So that's it, dear reader. I am Andreea, a clumsy cook, with a passion for collecting cookbooks and learning new things. Cooking is the only thing that stresses me (A LOT), yet I still do it day after day. And this blog will be the place where I share my adventures in the form of recipes - and maybe more, who knows. I am not creating these recipes. I learn them from friends and family and cookbooks and I will always share the original links (or page number in a cookbook/magazine). Why am I reposting recipes that are available in a form of the other, you ask? Because I am treating this blog as my own recipe binder - which makes it easier for me to find a certain recipe or see what exactly I changed if a certain ingredient was not available to me. If I repost your recipe and you want it taken down, please email me at apandreeap@gmail.com.

Thank you!

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