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Hi There! I’m Angela, welcome to my site. I am a huge fan of all things food, wine, entertaining and travel. I Live in Portland Oregon where life is all about food, micro brews, local wines, nature and did I mention food?! After graduating from Western Culinary, I worked in some of Portland’s finest restaurants and hotels. Learning from renowned teachers of the art and finding my own style in the process. My passion for food and cooking started early on, watching my Mother in the kitchen creating a new taste sensation. Clipping recipes out of magazines and creating her own “cookbooks” with them. I seem to have inherited this gene as well! So many recipes! Nothing brings me more joy than a gathering of family and friends around the table, eating, drinking, sharing stories and laughter. Lot’s of laughter! Eat-Live-Happy is my creative outlet where I can share some of my favorite recipes, new recipes, wine and food pairing tips, restaurant/travel reviews and some fun stories to go along with it. And have a place to store all of those recipes that I have been clipping! I hope that these recipes will bring much joy to you and your friends and family. Cheers!
GOOD BREAD IS THE MOST FUNDAMENTALLY SATISFYING OF ALL FOODS; GOOD BREAD WITH FRESH BUTTER, THE GREATEST OF FEASTS! ~JAMES BEARD
“ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE. BUT A LITTLE CHOCOLATE NOW AND THEN DOESN’T HURT.”
― CHARLES M. SCHULZ
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10 Comments
chef mimi
Portland? Ah, you’re so lucky. And that’s why you can get such beautiful crabs!!!
Angela@grapegravy
Dungeness are my favorite 🙂
cookwithreena
New Look!!! Congratulations Angela. Happy to go thru.
angela@grapegravy
Thank you! My site got a little facelift.
cookwithreena
It looks good. Did you opted for wordpress paid site ?
angela@grapegravy
I changed to a self hosted site. It included WordPress account.
Lisa
Great recipes here. Thanks for following my blog at goodgriefcook.com. I really appreciate it.
angela@grapegravy
Thanks for the follow as well. Love your blog!
anitaliandish
Hi Angela,
I look forward to reading more about wine pairing. I love to cook Italian food and, well, wine is pretty much inseparable from the dishes.
I love Portland! I am lucky enough to have a family member who lives there and is very much a foodie, so it is always fun to visit.
angela@grapegravy
I just recently visited a winery here and will be posting about that soon. I plan to do much more of them too! I adore Italian food. One day I plan to eat and drink my way through Italy!