Jello!
I'm María B and as you may notice, I'm The Cookware Geek.
I LOVE food, cooking it, seasoning it, baking it and of course eating it!
My favorite therapy for a sad day is to hear this song and bake a bunch of chewy butter cookies.
I also have other passions like makeup, travel, photography, plants, cats and movies. Also, I have a small online cat store called Hello Miau.
But at the end of the day cooking is what makes the magic happen.
Why Did I Start The Cookware Geek?
In 2016 I left Venezuela (my native country) and my boyfriend Will and I started a new life in Portugal, specifically in Lisbon.
When I moved out from my house, I found myself with plenty of free time (while I was waiting for my residency in Portugal) and I just decided to put into practice all my skills as my mom’s kitchen assistant. I rediscovered my love for food because now I was the one that was in charge in the kitchen.
This led me to create a good number of recipes that I personally tested and approved and I wanted to share them in some way. A food blog looked like the best way to achieve it.
Another incentive was to open a blog written in English, and in that way reinforce my skills in this language (right now I speak three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese and aiming to learn some more).
For that reason, if you see some major grammatical mistakes in any recipe, please let me know to fix them and learn a little bit more at the same time.
What can you find on this blog?
- South American recipes. Classical Venezuelan savory dishes and desserts that have been tested for generations in my family
- Portuguese recipes.
- Easy 20-minute recipes
- Ideas for everyday meals. I’m not particularly the fanciest cook.
Measures in the recipes:
I do not get along with measures. At the beginning of my food journey, I just cooked my meals tasting everything and adding things without caring too much. This obviously changed when I decided to start a food blog because who wants a recipe that has as an instruction like “Add chili until your eyes are watering and don't feel your tongue”?. Even today, I still don't like measures, so please bear with me. If any recipe has a big problem with the measures, please let me know and I will fix it.
I usually work with tbsp, tsp and cups ---Americans can be so weird sometimes--- because my main audience is from the US. If I’m talking about any meat, seafood or fish I will use grams as a measure.
I use both ºC and ºF for temperatures.
The Team
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Will “Technical support and Taster”
He is the answer to my questions, like “I just crashed my site” or “does this petit gateau need more ice cream?". He is currently my hands model so you can say he has the "hands on the dough" all the time.
You can find him sitting at his computer thinking about the next online business or playing Dota 2 (he loves that shit more than me).
He is the owner of Vloggerpro and FindMyGuitar
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Luna “Model and Residual taster”
What can I say about her? She is the laziest cat in the world until she smells tuna. Then she becomes a demanding princess that will climb every counter to eat it. Although she prefers to cry out loud to have us give her what she wants.