About Us

Welcome to Inspired Taste, a personal food, cooking and inspiration blog created by me, Joanne and my wonderful husband Adam.  Adam and I were recently married on May 31, 2009 in Annapolis,  Maryland.  Just before we were married we decided to move in together in beautiful Alexandria, Virginia. We both work at an engineering firm created by my parents over 10 years ago and live in a small one bedroom apartment with our fabulous cat, Marmalade.  For many years, I have dreamed of writing my own cookbook.  I am not professionally trained, but I try to constantly learn new recipes, food pairings and techniques.  Adam is a pretty good cook too, but he is most helpful when I need someone to try one of my recipes.  He is always front and center for that job.

Over the past few months, knowing about my dream of writing my own cookbook one day, Adam has introduced me to the world of blogging  and to the idea of starting our very own food and cooking blog to push myself to build my recipe collection and to connect with other inspired cooks. Inspirations  for recipes, photographs and what we write come from our everyday life and travels. We believe inspiration is everywhere, you just have to look for it; so, this is our way of making sure we look for it. ~Joanne

I do enjoy the testing part of recipe making because Joanne is a wonderful cook!  But even more than the food tasting I am so happy that we have found something that we can work on together just for the pure fun of it!  In order to understand the importance of that you have to remember that we both go to work and commute together everyday of the week. Every time I tell that to someone I get a surprised look. “How do you do that?” I never have the same answer to that question, but all of my answers do have a general theme. “I love her, plain and simple.” I think the main reason I love Joanne is for her most pronounced feature; she is a wonderfully confused dreamer like myself and it is nice that we have found a way to share a dream together.  This blog, website, journal, string of thoughts, or whatever you want to call it gives us a creative project that both of us can just simply enjoy creating and it is even better that we get to share it with everyone.~Adam

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One of our favorite inspirations is our cat, Marmalade or as she is affectionately called at home, Marme. Marme is 10 years old and is the sweetest cat we have ever met.  She adores attention and cannot stand it when she is not the center of attention.  We think Marme has mixed feelings about this new endeavor.  As I mentioned before, we have a little condo, so there is not much space and certainly no space for Adam and I to use a computer other than on the sofa with our laptops.  This is a major issue with Marmalade since she believes our laps should really be reserved for her and not a laptop.

Anyway, since Adam and I have started really getting into Inspired Taste, Marme has seen an increase in time spent on the computer, forcing her to sit next to us and not on our laps, which she seems to be very unhappy with.  However, I did say she has mixed feelings.  Marmalade loves chicken and ham, so since there has been an increase in the preparation of food in our kitchen, she does benefit on occasion with a tiny taste to try.

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