Hello!

Hi, I’m Jaym. I’m a sort of vegetarian, carb-loving, 5-year-old-palate-having, recipe-breaking food addict. I’m a creative writer, editor, game designer, and UX writer who works full time in the tech industry and nearly full time in the tabletop gaming industry, too. I consult on futurist things, edited some military strategy collections, and study community response to natural disasters. And, because I don’t like being bored, I train horses, practice a Russian martial art called Systema, and have a fountain pen habit that leaves my fingers constantly rainbow. And I cook to relax and get my head out of the really awful reality we live in.

I cook via whim and curiosity, and have had people asking me for recipes for years. My flavors are a mix of Indian, California Mexican, and Southern comfort food. My partner is a carnivore, and while I never learned to enjoy meat, I love cooking it, so while a lot of my recipes are vegetarian, sometimes they’ll include meat. We travel a lot for work, and are both super active people with a lot going on, so we try to eat sorta-kinda healthy and don’t talk about our Midnight Cookie habit.

My goals this year included “learn to decorate cakes,” “stop being a pansy about making your own pie dough,” “figure out why you can’t fucking make meringues anymore,” and “start blogging again,” so, well. This covers all those things. This will probably be a mix of recipes, pet antics, whatever hobby I’m currently obsessed with, stories and musings about growing up in California’s agricultural world, and thoughts about sustainability and the future. I’m kind of all over the place, I swear a lot, and I’m bad about schedules, but if you put up with me, I’ll try to be entertaining.