Hi y'all!

**Buttah Pats** · 11-04-2009, 09:32 PM

LOL you guys are hilarious!

**jglass** · 11-04-2009, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by jpshaw

I've got to admit. Now it does look like me. You got me on that one

I couldnt help myself lol.

**jglass** · 11-04-2009, 10:48 PM

Hey my hubby says he has the body of a God. Buddha

**chubbyalaskagriz** · 11-05-2009, 02:10 AM

Hi Rebecca and welcome to Spice Place! I sleep days and work nights so I usually contribute hours after ya'll have gone to bed (although sometimes janie's a night-owl, too!)

And for what it's worth- I'm not the guy in janie's current avatar- I'm the one she had yesterday- the young hunky sexy actor-dude with the open shirt. (Hee-Hee!) Actually, I'm the guy in my own avatar- chunky and extra-large for all the world to see!

I cooked professionally from the time I was just 14 until I turned 39- so my kitchen career lasted 25 years. I spent time at hotels, country clubs and at resorts in Alaska operated by Princess Cruises. I side-stepped out of gourmet food and strted slingin' hash and serving-up meat and potatoes at remote site work-camps for Alaska's oil, commmercial-fishing and mining industries before calling it quits. I loved kitichens, but they were hot and demanding and I decided to move back home to rural central Illinois to be near aging parents- and these days I work the graveyard shift in the basement of a Fortune-25 company in a completely unrelated field.

I love all food- from fancy/schmancy foo-foo, to basic homestyle GRUB- I'm definitely not a food-snob! My favorties are caramel pop-corn, grilled beef, grilled salmon, fried chicken, cheese & crackers, fruit and cheesecake.

Anyway- as you can see- this is a friendly foodie forum made up of fantastic, neighborly folks! And we're mighty-fine glad to have ya!

Lastly, lotsa Southerners here- as well as folks from ALL OVER! I've called Illinois and Alaska home- but one day I hope to retire to a cabin in NW North Carolina- at which time I will host everybody from Spice Place to a weekend of Alaskan Barbecuing and tent-camping in my back-yard!

**Buttah Pats** · 11-05-2009, 05:31 AM

yay! Go team!
I love bbq's =D

**Cook Chatty Cathy** · 11-05-2009, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by chubbyalaskagriz

but one day I hope to retire to a cabin in NW North Carolina- at which time I will host everybody from Spice Place to a weekend of Alaskan Barbecuing and tent-camping in my back-yard!

Oh my gosh Kevin that sounds so inviting and I just know we would have a blast! Can I get my reservations in like right NOW!