ABOUT BIJOUXS
Welcome to Bijouxs Little Jewels from the Kitchen. With many new readers, here’s a little bit about myself and the website. First about the name n.; pl. Bijoux. [F.; of uncertain origin.] translates to a trinket; a jewel; — a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.I try hard to keep Bijouxs elegant and fine workmanship.
I started Bijouxs as a natural evolution of my backgrounds in food and design. While working as a commercial designer for many years, I always continued my love of cooking and food. It all began when I worked coordinating food and wine aboard a private jet – it has been a non-stop journey with food – you never arrive. Later, I used those years with food as a private chef and also catered parties for my clients. I also filmed a series of Internet cooking videos for Eat Drink or Die for the show “What’s for Dinner Tonight?” The videos can be located here to view:
Bijouxs is a culmination of my training and talents from my kitchen to yours. Inspired by classic culinary arts, I strive to keep Bijouxs simple and honest, yet surprising. I know there are many websites devoted to food. My goal is to bring to you one Bijoux at a time which is simple and easy to access.
LITTLE JEWELS FROM THE KITCHEN
Bijouxs blog is a personal expression of recipes, photographs, and stories from my kitchen. I don’t review or advertise products; I share things I love and am never paid. I share links to other blogs, websites, etc. but do not exchange links. I style and photograph all of the Bijouxs blog images and create all of my own cookbooks. All of the content is subject to copyright, unless otherwise specified.
THE COLLECTION MEMBERSHIP
I created the Collection Membership to provide all Members with access to now 600+ curated recipes plus access to all new recipes added monthly. Ad-free and Pop-up free with Print-Friendly recipes. I like to think of it as a portable digital cookbook, no heavy cookbook to lug around and all the recipes are available digitally for you to access while you market or even lay by the pool. The price of $35 yearly is a great value, less than 3 a month for the year and all the recipes. Your membership supports me to keep this a beautiful and distraction free website to browse for recipes. Non of the pesky pop-up ads and tracking tricks.
The recipes have been collected from my travels all over the world with cuisines from Italy, France and of course, Classic Home Style Cooking. There are recipes for everyone from gluten-free to grain-free to recipes from many different countries so world so you can cook the world.
THE CREATIVE HABIT
My creative routine begins early each morning with a dose of everyday beauty in the form of a visual image that fills my eyes with beauty to carry me through my day – my ‘belle du jour.’ It may be an image from my archive of reference files I have collected over the years working as a designer, an image I have captured myself, or just a beautiful image that catches my eye. Everything is relevant and everything is usable– and it’s also a nice way to start the day. One of my favorite books is The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp. I mentioned it here, back when I first started Bijouxs. Twyla mentions the importance of establishing some rituals–automatic but decisive patterns of behavior at the beginning of a project “when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up or going the wrong way.” Oh yea!
Thank you for stopping by and check out all 600+ recipes with new recipes on the way. Cheers!
