My Story

I still have the recipes from the first cooking class I ever took, which was held in the upper level of a grocery store when I was around ten years old. I fondly remember remaking those recipes with my mom, realizing that something truly tasty could be made with just a few ingredients.

Over the years, I gained more baking and cooking experience. When a recipe turned out well, I felt so accomplished! But when they failed, it was always tough to move past.

In university, I actually used baking and mastering difficult recipes—continually levelling up—as a coping mechanism for stress and the full-time focus required for school. It was difficult to convince myself to take an hour-long walk, but spending six hours to make macarons or a complex layered cake with multiple components was easy.

I realized I have a love of food that brings me immense joy, and this love drives intense research. For me, researching an item across ten different recipes and taking the best pieces from each has never felt like hard work.

Apparently, this level of dedication isn't common! I started to understand that I am someone who is super focused on being successful with baking, and sometimes cooking.

Today, I love knowing the best, expert tips to ensure a recipe is successful. I like to compare recipes to see which one I want to try, and I also enjoy using generative AI (GenAI) to help me with this research to be even more successful. Thankfully, my 9-5 career involves teaching others how to use GenAI tools so my hope is to make it easy for you to learn how to use GenAI - with a focus on baking and cooking - which you can then apply to other areas of your life.

Because my priority is finding and documenting "the goods" in my life, welcome to my site: my recipe testing, living documentation. I hope it becomes a unique addition to your favorites list. This isn't intended for every post to be a long-winded, perfected recipe. But I'm confident there will be some winners and interesting education throughout your time with me.