Lorrie Perencevic

I have been cooking and baking since I was a child. My Mom baked most of our breads from scratch as I was growing up, and always conscientiously cooked healthy and tasty meals for our family. I think I learned to appreciate doing things in the kitchen from scratch by watching her. She turned the produce of an enormous vegetable garden into canned and frozen foods that served us well until the following summer...I still love to watch the procession from seed to plant to food on the table. It's a beautiful thing!

I love to bake, and breads from scratch are the thing I enjoy the most. I love researching different grains, their nutritional factors and uses, creative ways to incorporate more nutrition into a finished product without sacrificing taste...you get the idea.

Outside of the kitchen, I enjoy spending time with my family, crocheting like a maniac, writing on various other topics, going for long walks, and reading good books.

My dream is to one day be a full-time writer and speaker, sharing the things I have learned and passing on what seems to be a fast-fading skill: the skill of taking raw ingredients, a bit of creativity, and a passion for good food, and blending all three into an end result of dancing taste buds, full tummies, and a circle of content and peaceful faces.

I'll get there...one meal at a time.