Questions + Answers

From John

Hi Allison,

Is food a canvas for creative expression for you?  If so, what is a favorite dish to create or your modus operandi in your kitchen?

Cheers,

Johhny

p.s.  I am the shellcraft guy w the Peace and Love works shared here last year.  Here's this year's first outing, an Xmas present for my wife.

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Dear John,

Food is definitely an area where I feel creatively inclined. I can’t always be, because I spend a good portion of my time in the kitchen just trying to anticipate and/or interpret my son’s culinary desires, but I do love to stretch out and create when I have the opportunity.

I am not a fancy cook by any stretch of the imagination, but I know how to whip up a batch of biscuits, a pretty great vinaigrette salad dressing, and throw ingredients together and make them make sense most of the time. I also like to follow recipes when I have time to slow down and learn. Everything I know about cooking, I learned from watching or tasting. I’m so fortunate to come from a line of great cooks – my Mama, my Grandmother, etc. — and they didn’t so much teach me as allow me to hang out in the kitchen with them. I remember making my first meat sauce for spaghetti when I was about ten years old. It was passable — we ate it for supper that night, but I wonder if I’d have let ten-year-old me in my kitchen?

Behold — my grandmother’s secret to elevating a box cake mix. She swears by it. I would too if I ever made cakes.

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Your shell art is beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

I hope y’all have a fantastic weekend.

PEACE. LOVE.

Allison

Send me a question at allisonmoorercontact@gmail.com

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