Meet Jorj Morgan

I realized when I began assembling my recipes for a cookbook that I had developed a personal philosophy about food. For me, cooking and entertaining is synonymous with sharing and growing. The socialness of food solidifies our everyday family life as well as opens the door to new relationships. Stirring and chopping is a tension reducer that decreases the stress of a full workday and invites shared experience with your family and friends. I discovered that you don't have to be cooking for guests to enjoy fussing over a midweek meal.

Now I want to share with you the simple fact that you can find time to cook at home the foods that you love to eat. All that you need is the desire to create a wonderful meal using fresh ingredients, a stocked pantry, a few kitchen gadgets and the knowledge of cooking terms. I want to encourage the everyday cook so that we do not become obsolete in today's hectic society. I totally believe that we can blend daily family meals into our vast number of activities like little league games, dancing lessons and business meetings. If we can schedule our lives using computer chips and pagers, we can utilize this same technology to incorporate menu planning into our schedule. We owe it to ourselves and to our families.

My recipes, cooking tips and entertainment style come from my personal experience. This knowledge is crafted from dining in wonderful restaurants, collecting articles from beautifully pictured magazines, deciphering grandma's hand written notes, watching television food chefs, thumbing through turned down pages of my most worn cookbooks and dozens of other influences. I have perfected these recipes and techniques over many years and share them in a way that will allow you to make them yours.

My expertise in the culinary field incorporates 25 years of entertaining including owning and cooking for my catering company. My most valuable profession, of over twenty-two years is being a mom. Along the way there have been a few (laughable) mistakes, but delightfully, many more surprises and compliments. This wealth of experience, met with a light hearted and positive approach, has led to self-confidence in my ability to be creative in the kitchen and share that creativity with friends and family. My wish is that this Web site and my cookbook, At Home In The Kitchen, will give you the same confidence to enjoy cooking at home.

Send me an e-mail. Feel free to let me know what you think of the book, ask your questions or share your favorite recipes with me! E-mail me at Jorj@jorj.com

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