Welcome!

You're probably demanding an explaination from me. Ms Jones, you're saying, why in heaven's name would we want to read about your failures and triumphs in the kitchen of your teensy apartment? So this is how I would answer you:

Chances you, YOU might not want to read about them...but I do. And I needed a place to spout off about all these mishaps (some being happy ones) without feeling like I needed to add in extraneous information about my personal daily life. Food has become my passion...therefore, my passion needed a new home. Hence, Ms Jones' Kitchen. I'll be posting not only text, but pictures of my culinary adventures, gearing myself AND you up for my eventual dive into Pastry School in the fall. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them here or email me directly.

More information on me personally is in my user profile. I won't go into too much detail here, seeing as most of you reading this already know me pretty well. I'm about to turn 25 this year...and am not completely happy with what I am currently doing with my life. I enjoy working, but there's some sense of true fulfillment that's missing. This is where cooking comes in. I feel really accomplished when I complete a task, which is more than I can say for most of the work I do now. I plan on starting a 9 month pastry program at the French Culinary Institute in NYC in the fall. My facility tour and class audit is the second weekend in August and it can't come soon enough. I have always enjoyed cooking, but for most of my life, I enjoyed eating more. But over the past three years and counting, I've paid more attention to what I was putting into my body. As a result (and a rigorous exercise program) I was able to lose about half my starting body weight and gain a tremendous interest and love for cuisine creation. So when I cook now, I'm usually on the hunt for a new way to decrease calories in food while increasing its nutritional value. Nothing makes me happier than putting effort into a great meal and watching people I care about enjoy eating it as much as I did making it.

I think that going through what I have in the past few years is just a sign that the move to cooking school is a step in the right direction to get what I'm looking to get out of life. Don't get me wrong, I still LOVE eating...but its the entire process getting to the final results that really makes my mouth water.

I can't promise this will be very exciting, seeing as how most of the other foodie blogs out there are composed by people with ways and means that i don't have. But I have spirit and a willingness to experiment. So this should be fun. Welcome to Ms Jones Kitchen. Hungry yet? I am...