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 11 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. Knowing about this dream, Adam introduced us to the world of blogging and together we came up with the idea of starting our very own food and cooking blog. I am currently not a professionally trained chef (update below),  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 it comes to the food photography and when a finished recipe needs to be tested. He is always front and center for that job.

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.

Update:  Just less than one year after starting this blog,  with the help of Adam, family and our blogger friends, I finally realized my true passion for cooking and have decided to pursue culinary school.  With a bundle of nerves and excitement, I started in April of 2010, hat and all!~Joanne

One of our favorite inspirations is our cat, Marmalade or as she is affectionately called at home, Marme. Marme is 10 11 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.

Update: We decided to purchase a few chairs for our kitchen since we are in it so often, Marmalade seems to be grateful; now we consider her our own quality control specialist.

We would love to hear from you, feel free to leave us a comment below, or use our contact form to privately email us.

Our First Video

We actually gathered enough courage to film ourselves and  finally publish our first video.  Joanne and I wanted to take the candid approach. We decided we would attempt to answer some questions from the Newlywed game. We did not write a script and we barely did any editing so I suggest you prepare yourself.  I mostly get in trouble for the answers I give, but that is how the game goes most of the time I guess. ~Adam