I like most things in life and I'm very sentimental. I love poems and people and travelling. I take a lot of photographs and I collect stupid things like postcards, letters and pictures my friends draw me. I have a very nice boyfriend who loves getting to eat all my cooking. When we're together, we live like owls and eat like pigs, which is splendid. I am terrible with money, very clumsy and very forgetful. But I'm definitely a glass-half-full kind of gal.
The past three years since I left school have been a learning curve for me. I've finally got my head screwed into the right place, have grown up a bit and realized that I want to spend my life working with food. I've finally moved out of my hometown, Perth, to live in Glasgow and so far it's been fantastic. I'm doing a level 2 diploma in Professional Cookery at college and I love my course. At the end of the year three people are chosen from my class, and three from the class below me, to go to Leon, France for three weeks to work and learn which would be an amazing opportunity and I really hope I get picked.
Why is the blog called Feeding Magpies? Because until I started my course, no one had taught me how to cook the way I do. Rather like a magpie stealing trinkets, I've spent many years gathering and collecting recipes, paying attention to the world and the people around me and garnering ideas, tips, secrets and knowledge that I've come across and storing them in my head for future use. Now I'm studying, but I still collect inspiration from all over and I welcome you to do the same.
Please feel free to suggest, ask questions, offer corrections or share anything you like. I do not pretend to be an expert. I frequently look back on older recipes I was once proud of and see things I would do differently now as I'm learning more every day. I appreciate all and any feedback.
