Hi, I'm Ashley!

While I will never be able to thank my darling friend, Adriane, for "introducing" me to such an amazing woman, I know she is right here with us and our blossoming friendship. To add to Amber's description, I met Adriane in graduate school through the UF Dairy Science club, where the two of us were the most unadvised graduate "advisors". After a trip to LSU in Baton Rouge, we became the nearest and dearest friends. Adriane and I shared a love of animals (mainly cows), food/cooking/eating, Jimmy Buffett, the ocean, the state of South Carolina and listening to silly music while driving with the windows down.

I will never forget the day that she moved into my house and proclaimed, "We are going to be the best house EVER because we have all of the ridiculous kitchen gadgets you can buy!" Between ramekins and cracker cutters, zesters and cheese slicers, we had the most amazing kitchen equipment! (But sadly, our graduate student incomes didn't support our foodie habits.)

After graduating and starting my new job, Adriane was still looking for her place to shine, so she was able to send me all kinds of yummy recipes to try since now I had the money to buy the fun ingredients once so far from our reach! I will completely agree with Amber's list of recipes to post because I know I like the easy ones, but I also like yummy ones that may take a little more finesse! :)

To those of you who never knew Adriane, she was sunshine bottled in an adorable, friendly, happy person. She never met a stranger and if for some reason you could get her to talk about animals or food, she would have you captivated for hours. (I know! There were way too many nights we stayed up playing with her puppy and talking about all of the yummy concoctions we were going to try as soon as we got our "big girl jobs" and could afford to cook more than ramen noodles!)

I hope you enjoy our blog as much as we are going to enjoy writing it. If Adriane was still here with us, I know she would just LOVE this idea and would have gladly incorporated all three of us into this culinary journey.