Hey there!
My name is Karis and I’m from Minnesota, although I don’t know anything about hot dishes, jello fruit salad, or canned casseroles. See, my Mom grew up in Japan and learned how to cook miso soup and fermented soybeans and sushi. So despite us living in the North, I was the kid who ate dried seaweed and brown rice and mochi bean paste for lunch instead of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Somedays I whined for a lunchable or chocolate chip cookies or soda but my mom gave us molasses cookies and dried apricots and carrots (ok, sometimes we ate ice cream!) Looking back, she’s the one who has inspired my healthy cooking and my love for creating flavorful dishes. From an early age, I’d stand on the stool and help stir the big pot of curry chicken or chop the zucchini and wash the shiitake mushrooms. She’d tell us all the nutrients and good vitamins we were eating from the wild caught salmon and organic vegetables. I loved spending afternoons shopping at the farmer’s market and remembering her questions, “Is this kale sprayed? Are these berries organic?” but mostly I came for the raw honey sticks 🙂
Facts about me:
–I’m married to Kosta (He’s Greek but I just have a Greek name!)
–I love bananas and almond butter
–My comfort food is fried chicken, Japanese curry and dark chocolate
–I like to cook simple, healthy recipes
–I love decorating, taking photos, working out and traveling