Ambrosia for Guen

This little community is for sharing some ideas on something that is very near and dear to my heart (cooking). At it's inception, this community was a friends only community, but I have since decided that to limit the dicussion of cooking to just the friends who I interact with in the real world, would not really help me to expand my horizons as I wished to do with this community. So I invite anyone and everyone to join my little community so that we can share our experiences together. The topics of this community are varied. It's all about food, but a few of us are vegitarians or even sometimes vegan, so vegitarian cooks, you are certainly welcome even though all the recipes might not be veggi in this community. If you have any trouble joining, please contact me, guen_the_cat.

As to as what I will be trying to offer to this community:

I have been slowly trying to perfect my understanding of cooking with cast iron and converting southern cooking to lighter, more healthy, but still tastefull dishes with the help of a few magazine ideas.

I am currently honing my skills with my tiny cast iron grill while wishing I had a Huge pit grill/smoker/outdoor kitchen area. So Grillers - Bring it on!

I am also honing my once Extremely picky pallete to the wonders of international foods. I am quite the fledgling on this type of menu, but I would Love any suggestions or hints as I will be posting my triumphs and flubb-ups in this forum as often as I can.

I am also trying to keep myself on a healthy minimally processed mediterranian-ish diet (I have a penchant for cheese, goat in particular, and my diet says I'm not supposed to have much, but everybody's got a flaw right?) so to encourage myself in this endeavor, many of my personally posted recipes will be along the lines of this diet.

And if you like, I can post here and there about some of the truly wonderful dishes/eating experiences I have been having out at restaurants as well.

Well, Happy cooking!