| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Location | Puget Sound, United States |
| Introduction | My name is Jeanette, and I was born in Sweden, but unlike the famous Muppet, I am not a professional Swedish Chef. I actually went to school for art, design, and photography. Beyond that, I worked as a freelance indie-rock critic for several magazines in the late 90s and early 2000s. I even took a crack at running a PR company for a while. However, cooking has always been in my DNA--my dad's brother was a chef and culinary arts instructor, my dad's father was a pastry chef, and my mom's mother was a caterer, and at the age of 92, she published a cookbook of traditional Finnish breads and pastries. Everyone else in my family loves to cook, too, and we're not afraid to experiment. Usually I end up inventing dishes (with or without outside inspiration) with whatever I have on hand, hence "Off the Cuff." I might make very Scandinavian dishes (meatballs, and salmon with dill-potatoes) or ethnic like Thai, Japanese, Mexican, Italian or Spanish. By the way, you can put bell peppers in almost all cuisine! (Drop me a line, at o f f t h e c u f f c o o k i n g "at" g m a i l followed by the dot-com. :) |
| Interests | Art, graphic & interior design, crafts, cooking, traveling, photography, gardening... anything and everything. |
| Favorite Movies | Classical and/or musical films from the Golden Era of Hollywood are my preference, but I do also love cult comedies, and Steve Martin and Peter Sellers do a fine job of that. Oh and movies about pirates. |
| Favorite Music | Big band, jazz, classical, and "easy listening" on the one hand... on the other hand, obscure indie bands, and 80s synth pop. And the best band ever? ABBA. |
| Favorite Books | The Holy Bible, anything by C.S. Lewis, F.Scott Fitzgerald, James Thurber, and I also have a very fond spot in my heart for The Little Prince. |
