re: What is your Food Philosophy?

I don't just throw slop on the table. I enjoy cooking and do 95% of the cooking in my household. That's only because of my wife and I's work schedule. I get home first so I start cooking, she wraps up work and does some clothes, we eat, typically as family, then we typically both clean the kitchen.

I cook as an act of love, to provide for my family. I rarely do box stuff and do most things from scratch. The art in cooking to me is having everything timed to be ready at once and making something out of nothing.

I'm 46, so my mother was a mother of the 70s-80s and I can say she never served us anything out of a box (aside from mac-n-cheese). She made a lot of rice and gravy and beans.