About Jo
Hello and welcome to my food blog. Grab a cup of coffee and a scone and I hope you have some fun while you’re surfing through my blog.
I was born in Romania in the 70s and in the 80s my family and I moved to Canada. I always enjoyed cooking and baking as a kid, I was always in the kitchen with my mother helping her out. That’s where I learned how to make most romanian dishes that I have posted on this blog. I don’t have a career in the food industry, as a matter of fact I’m a software developer, far from cooking and baking. I just enjoy being in the kitchen and trying to cook new recipes that I try out on my poor husband, who is quite a picky eater but has no choice but to try my food.
I wanted to create this website to share my love for food with friends and family and to have a place to store all my recipes. I’ve tried writing them in notebooks but somehow I always lose the books. These recipes are recipes that my family and I have enjoyed over the years and I don’t want to lose them, so share them with your friends and family as you choose. Please leave your comments if you have tried any of the recipes and have enjoyed them, I love reading to see what people think.
I have made all of these recipes and have tried them all, if I didn’t like them I wouldn’t post them here. I understand people have different tastes and some dishes are not for everyone. If you’ve left a comment and it has been deleted, well that is my right to delete comments I don’t like, as this is my blog. These pictures were taken by myself or by my husband with our Canon DSLR camera. I like to try all different kinds of cuisines, I love Indian food, Thai food, Chinese food, etc. I love to experiment and try all these recipes myself.
Occasionally, I will bore you with pictures of my dog, whom I love dearly and is just my best friend in the world. Her name is Mia and she is a 7 8 year old beagle, who is the cutest beagle in the world. At least in my eyes. She is the biggest fan of my cooking and will pretty much eat anything you put in her plate. She watches me cook every single time and awaits anxiously for food (bacon) to make its way on the floor. You never have a dirty floor with her around, that’s for sure. She’s a great cleaner upper.
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Feel free to email me at jo@jocooks.com with any questions, or post a comment here or on any of the recipes.
Dee
Do you have a recipe…I think it was called Dump Cake….and you can use frozen mixed berries instead of fresh fruit? I think you also use a cake mix.
Thankyou.
.I am making your Baked Penne with Italian Sausage tonight, as it sounds very good!
jo
Hi Dee!
Great choice on the baked penne, it’s very good. I have never heard of dump cake, is that similar to a cobbler or an upside down cake? If you have mixed berries, you can always do a trifle, if you have some whipped cream, cream cheese or mascorpone cheese, some vanilla pudding you could mix these 3 ingredients together and make a nice trifle with it. Or for the grandkids I really recommend you make that sex in a pan dessert, you can call it something else for them, but they would love it. Let me know what you end up doing.