About Chef Alisha

Hello World!  I'm a mother of two with a full time job.  I'm on a budget and desperately working towards better health.  All I have known is processed foods.  I recall my dad once joked that if it didn't have over 26 preservatives, he wouldn't eat it.  Iceberg lettuce was the only lettuce I knew other than spinach, which was frozen and came in a block.  Although I do LOVE  the food from my past, its time to change the way I eat for the sake of family health.  So like most parents I know, we want to feed our families well, we have little money and even less time to devote to something that must be done daily, feeding the ones we love.  Over the years I have dabbled in the Culinary Arts and I have found that I enjoy the entire process of feeding my family, from the shopping, the prepping and cooking, its become a joy.  Recipes are all over my house, plastered on the walls of my tiny kitchen, crammed into the drawers of the hutch and there are a few in my purse although I'm not sure why.  I never follow the instructions and I often substitute one thing for another because I go off what is in my pantry and fridge because I don't always have the resources to make constant trips to the grocery store.  I've experimented so much that it is now time to do a brain dump of the recipes I have learned and the tips and tricks needed to make healthy cooking fun and easy.  So let's get this culinary blog started and see where we end up!