shellys
Assistant Cook
I've been viewing several cooking/food forums and have a gut feeling about this one, seeing as how there are sub forums that are what my life is about.
I'm a 64 year old man living in beautiful Carmel Valley, CA. My current profession is as an edible landscape consultant/garden coach. I also was the owner/chef of a small restaurant (Shelly's Kitchen) in Carmel Valley, CA from 1975-1988. I grew most of the produce for it, also used my own chicken and duck eggs for baking and was the first non smoking restaurant in our county (and elsewhere?). There were no farmer markets back then so I grew every unusual and different colored flesh vegetable and fruit that I could find. At one time, we had 175 varieties of fruits growing here. Lots of work!!!
Used to spend lots of time with the California Rare Fruit Growers and the North American Fruit Explorers organizations.
Back in the day way back when, I was a crisis and family therapist but retired from that in the early 1970's to become one of the first househusbands, staying home to cook, clean and nurture our son. (That was also one marriage ago.) Lots of undeserved publicity in newspapers and magazines, including Time.
I cooked every day for my first family as well as my current one, which consists of me and my wife, Alice.
I still cook every day for Alice, and our friends as well as maintain my modest career teaching others how to grow and landscape with plants that produce food, how to preserve and use the food in the kitchen, and how to create outdoor rooms with fragrance, beauty and nibbles.
I have lots to say and, hopefully, learn from and contribute to the forums. I have been active on audio/video forums and, most recently, on a bbq forum, as I use 6 grills/smokers. Running out of room for more, though.
Unfortunately, I will be starting my fruit tree pruning season in two weeks (I prune about 1000 fruit trees a year) and may not have time and energy to be very active here until it ends in early March (but also may find being here daily as the refresher that I need.)
But I expect to start new threads and to get into lots of old ones and revive them, adding my $.02 for what its worth. I also like to post lots of photos so am looking forward to that as well.
Shelly
I'm a 64 year old man living in beautiful Carmel Valley, CA. My current profession is as an edible landscape consultant/garden coach. I also was the owner/chef of a small restaurant (Shelly's Kitchen) in Carmel Valley, CA from 1975-1988. I grew most of the produce for it, also used my own chicken and duck eggs for baking and was the first non smoking restaurant in our county (and elsewhere?). There were no farmer markets back then so I grew every unusual and different colored flesh vegetable and fruit that I could find. At one time, we had 175 varieties of fruits growing here. Lots of work!!!
Used to spend lots of time with the California Rare Fruit Growers and the North American Fruit Explorers organizations.
Back in the day way back when, I was a crisis and family therapist but retired from that in the early 1970's to become one of the first househusbands, staying home to cook, clean and nurture our son. (That was also one marriage ago.) Lots of undeserved publicity in newspapers and magazines, including Time.
I cooked every day for my first family as well as my current one, which consists of me and my wife, Alice.
I still cook every day for Alice, and our friends as well as maintain my modest career teaching others how to grow and landscape with plants that produce food, how to preserve and use the food in the kitchen, and how to create outdoor rooms with fragrance, beauty and nibbles.
I have lots to say and, hopefully, learn from and contribute to the forums. I have been active on audio/video forums and, most recently, on a bbq forum, as I use 6 grills/smokers. Running out of room for more, though.
Unfortunately, I will be starting my fruit tree pruning season in two weeks (I prune about 1000 fruit trees a year) and may not have time and energy to be very active here until it ends in early March (but also may find being here daily as the refresher that I need.)
But I expect to start new threads and to get into lots of old ones and revive them, adding my $.02 for what its worth. I also like to post lots of photos so am looking forward to that as well.
Shelly
