Toast!

My blogs

Gender	Female
Location	California, United States
Introduction	I like to cook--it's an ideal combination of soothing and productive for me. I'm mostly self-taught with the exception of scrambled eggs, crepes, and lemon meringue pie. This is my way of remembering recipes I invent or tweak with a few other thoughts thrown in.
Interests	cooking, painting, photography, champagne, fashion, shoes, kittens, reading, toast, decorating, dinner parties, traveling, celtic harps, fairy tales, brunch, snow
Favorite Movies	The Little Mermaid (Disney), Fight Club, Nosferatu (the old one), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Boondock Saints, Moulin Rouge, A Clockwork Orange, Vertigo, The Maltese Falcon, Alice in Wonderland, Pan's Labyrinth, etc
Favorite Music	Most music from Dinah Washington to Daft Punk, Ray LaMontagne to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Lizz Wright to Lady Gaga.
Favorite Books	George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Anderson, Tolkien, Perrault, The Bros Grimm, Flaubert, Shelley, Stoker, Anne Rice, any fairytales really, Heart of Darkness, Lost Illusions, Pride and Prejudice, Jealousy, Neuromancer, Paradise Lost, The Great Gatsby, cook books, cocktail books, more.