Young Bear's Blog

For me, cooking has always been a normal part of my home life. My entire immediate family can cook as well. I learned most of what I know through my dad who learned from his dad. I like to think that my grandpa is where this love of cooking at home originates. Even in his later years, he spent a lot of time in the kitchen. I really believe he couldn't live without cooking the food that he wanted to eat. His apparent refusal to follow his doctors advise provides further support to my belief.  While my older sisters were out spending time with their friends, I remember spending entire weekend afternoons cooking with my dad. Spaghetti sauce was my favorite to make. It was a slow process and it felt like such a long wait to get through it but it was always worth it. In recent years I have developed my own recipe, strongly influenced from my dad's and one of my sisters said she likes mine more, quite the compliment indeed.  It's very rare that I go an entire day without ...

Hello, My name is William Young Bear Roman. Yes, that is my real middle name. And yes, it is Native American. I'm currently a student at De Anza College whose doing his best to balance school, work, and my relationship with the love of my life who also happens to be my fiance. If all goes well, this will at long last be my final year at De Anza before moving on to...whatever is next. As someone who works full time and goes to school, free time isn't something I have a lot of. But if there's one thing I really enjoy doing that's outside of all that, its cooking. I have no professional training and I don't make anything fancy. I do however cook the food that I like to cook. Sometimes my meals are entirely made up of fresh ingredients, other times I may use the help of some or maybe all prepackaged food. The point is, that's what this blog will focus on, the meals I make at home. I hope you enjoy and maybe even feel inspired to whip something up yourself in you...