Welcome!

This blog is meant to be a lighthearted look at cooking with me and some of my friends who are also enthusiastic amateur chefs. I named it the West Coast Cooking Blog because we live all up and down the West Coast -- I'm in LA, Liddybird is in the Bay Area, and mellybrelly is from gorgeous Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. It's also because, in my poorly informed opinion, one of the great advantages of living on the West Coast is access to a wide variety of interesting, sometimes exotic fresh food. Every time I go to a farmers market, I want to drop my plans for the day and start pursuing elaborate cooking projects. Then I want to share my missteps and successes with the world. Thus, this blog was born.


As you'll see, one of my big food interests is produce. I spend a lot of time at farmers markets. Since I'm usually too lazy to go to Ralphs, I often end up eating locally. And I love taking advantage of whatever gorgeous new fruit or veggie is just coming into season -- strawberries and fava beans right now (mid-March)! Another theme you may notice is at least token attempts to keep things healthy; all three of us have been on diets, and mine left me with a healthy distrust of too much butter. And while I'm a vegetarian, mellybrelly and Liddybird aren't, and I'm hoping Liddybird will be kind enough to share some of her pork-tastic authentic Chinese recipes with us.

This blog will be updated whenever we feel like cooking; we're all busy girls, but I figure I'll have the time and the goods once a week or so. I may repost something old from my personal blog just to get things started. Or maybe I'll get off my butt and make those lemon muffins. Thanks for stopping by.