Carrie's Experimental Kitchen

I love looking around the kitchen, seeing what I have on hand and creating a meal that is simple yet delicious. I love the freshness of Mediterranean-style cooking and most of my recipes reflect that. I have been married to my husband Don for over 16 years and I'm the mother of two girls, Rachael & Gabrielle, and we live in a small town in Northwestern NJ. I graduated from Johnson & Wales University with a B.S. in Hotel/Restaurant Management where I went to work for 7 years in Corporate Food Services as an Assistant Food Service Director in facilities that fed over 2,000 people a day. After the birth of our first daughter, I left the food business looking for something with more flexible hours so that I could have a better work/life balance and for the next 13 years, I worked for a local California Closets franchise as their Marketing Manager. Being a person who thrives on to-do lists and is not happy unless I'm doing three or four different things at once, I decided to create this blog to help organize my own recipes while at the same time helping out some of my friends and family that were always looking for something new to make for their own families. Documenting my recipes started as an idea that one day, I could have something written to give to my daughters, nieces and nephews as they got older to help them out in the kitchen. I normally don't measure when I cook but I had to start if I wanted to show them anything they could actually use and follow, and starting this blog seemed like the perfect place to start. I hope you like my recipes and have as much fun making them as I have had creating them.
Enjoy!