about me

I am a home cook. These are the recipes and photographs from my family kitchen.

Apple pie is my favourite thing to make. Foodtography is way fun. I love chopping vegetables. My dishwasher runs more often than I'm proud to admit. Unless otherwise indicated, all recipes shared on Family Feedbag are of my own creation.

I have two boys - a 4-year-old and a baby. My oldest is a good helper at the grocery store and loves to help make pizza (but only wants cheese and sauce on his). My youngest has a big appetite for such a little human and joyfully eats everything he's offered at the table.

Mr. Feedbag is one of those bicycle commuting BlackBerry types, and never says no to something home-cooked. I know I've nailed it when he goes for seconds. He's the best.

Most of what I know about cooking and baking I've learned from books, TV, and junior high home economics class. I get a lot of inspiration from the cooking styles of Chef Michael Smith, Jamie Oliver, Ina Garten, and Chef Dan Hayes. Recently I have been assisting with some cooking classes at Hayes' The London Chef cooking school while absorbing as much knowledge from him as I can.

It's important to me that my kids learn to prepare food from scratch and have fun in the kitchen.

Before starting a family, I worked as a radio and television news anchor, reporter, and talk show host, as well as in government media relations.

I blog in the corner of my living room on a blue chair with my laptop. That blue chair is in a house in Victoria, British Columbia. Family Feedbag was started in February 2011.