Once up on a time in a kitchen across town, a little girl of about seven, was going through her mother's Betty Crocker cookbooks.  She found a recipe that she just had to make! Her mother helped her gather all the ingredients and told her to just follow the recipe.  Nearly an hour later the kitchen looked like a tornado had hit it, and the little girl with her blue eyes filled with tears, sat feeling like a total failure, like the end of the world was surely upon her.  The little girl's mother told her to stop crying that all was not lost. The little girl, just knew there was no saving such a terrible disaster, but even though she was filled with so much doubt, she watched as her mother poured a smidge of milk in the skillet, add a pinch of this, and a dash of that, and with a few stirs of that old wooden spoon, her mother had created magic!  

 

Hi I'm AJ Wimberley, and that is the day I fell in love with the magic of cooking!  After years of cooking, for family, friends, the public as a restaurant owner, a professional chef for a large corporation and a recipe development chef.  You have now found me here at Your Kitchen Gnome. I believe that food is not just fuel - it's an experience.  As your professional chef I'm dedicated to creating recipes and meals that not only nourish your body, but send your taste buds on an enchanted journey. I want to bring that magic to your table for dinner tonight.