Elisa
Website: http://unlikelyhousewifecooking.blogspot.com
Here For: socializing, finding new recipes
Want to Learn How: new cuisines, new cooking tricks
Heard about BakeSpace From: its founder, on Twitter - brilliant, btw!
Occupation: SAHM
Cooker or Caker: Cooker
Bake/Cook Frequency: Every day
Baking/Cooking Training: None formal - started cooking as a toddler with my grandma - her pizza, risotto and stews are legendary among family and friends.
Favorite Food: hmm... it varies. Generally, I would probably have to say pizza, however that's really true only when I am in Italy. Everywhere else, I go by my mood: sometimes it's sushi, sometimes green curry (or Thai, in general), sometimes Shrimp Lo Mein...
Favorite Food Moment: When I first cooked for my husband and his family: I made spaghetti carbonara and tiramisù and his mom told me I was officially one the family's best cooks.
Favorite Cooking Word: sauté
Favoriate Restaurant: Il Pescatore ("the Fisherman"), in Cala Gonone, Sardinia, Italy
Interests: parenting (duh!), fashion, shopping, books, blogs and blogging, health, nutrition, weight loss, cooking (again, duh) :-)
Languages: Italian and English fluently, some German and Spanish
Books: the Mission Earth decalogy
the Stephanie Plum series
the Mayfair Witches trilogy
the Merry Gentry series
Bridget Jones' Diary and The Edge of Reason
Music: No Doubt
Gwen Stefani
Cold Play
alternative rock
R&B
TV/Movies: The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Dark Angel
Ally McBeal
Gilmore Girls
Sex and The City
Will & Grace
Lost
Travel: have been:
Italy (several places)
Switzerland (ditto)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Oslo, Norway
London, UK
Los Angeles, CA
Newport, CA
New York, NY
Boston, MA
Washington, D.C.
bunch of places in NY and CT
want to visit:
Ireland
Spain
Greece
Paris, France
Prague, Czech Republic
me and Stella..
