About Gala in The Kitchen

I am trying Beignets the first time in my life. September 2017

Welcome to the little world of my passion lifelong – cooking. My name is Gala, I am originally from Russia, but my home is the USA now. I am a wife, mom, and grandmother. I love to cook, decorate dishes, and learn new techniques and recipes. My cooking site is like my personal cooking notebook of recipes, tips, and cooking experience collected from family, friends, coworkers, chefs, books, and of course, Mr. Internet. I really love what I am doing.

My little story is a reflection of my passion. I wanted to be a chef but my parents were against it so I attended and graduated from University, I never liked what  I was studying,  it was what I needed to do. Many years after I attended anyway to the College of Technology and Marketing in the college city of Krasnodar, Russia, and studied the technology of food preparation for 1.5 years and left for the USA, so I didn’t able to continue my education. Did I  work as a cook? Yes, for almost one year just before going to the USA and on 2 other occasions. In the picture city Anapa (Russia). Instead of vacation I took this job for 1 month and liked it very much. What I learned, is to work as a cook is very hard work, if you cook for many people or just for a few at a small restaurant. It is not only cooking, but they also need to organize time and order of process, so dishes are served on time. Big respect to all cooks and chefs in the world!

I hope, you are going on a culinary journey with me and helping me with your advice, opinion, and of course, recipes.

Sincerely, your Gala

* My other passion was sewing and machine embroidery ( my embroidery machine is Janome).

**Most of my animated characters in videos are my home helpers  –  appliances and gadgets. To decorate my videos with animation and effects I use programs CrazyTalk7, Animation CrazyTalk3, Explandio, and VideoScribe. To keep up with my website I need to learn a lot not related to cooking knowledge. Like website SEO optimization, the usability of the website, and much much more. What sometimes so confuse me with complications and takes me away from cooking for a while.

***I a cookbook collector and love to try new cooking gadgets that make my life easier and cooking less complicated if I like one, I feature it on my website. I can say I gadgets collector, I have and had a lot :) One of my favorite cooking appliance brands is Breville. I have a coffee maker for Nespresso coffee capsules, a juicer, a mixer, a shredder, and a toaster oven.

In the photo below my cooking books library.