LOL you guys are hilarious!
jpshaw wrote:I've got to admit. Now it does look like me. You got me on that one :eek:
I couldnt help myself lol.
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!
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!
