About What's Gaby Cooking

Welcome to What's Gaby Cooking, my corner of the web where you'll find (mostly) healthy casual California recipes along with the occasional indulgence from my modern day kitchen along with beautiful things that inspire me and my travel explorations!

50 things about me:

1. I am absolutely obsessed with cheese
2. I am 26 years old
3. My closet is color coordinated and organized by season
4. I live by my planner
5. I love crossing things off in my planner
6. I wear bright red running + spinning shoes
7. My cookbooks are also color coordinated!
8. I am a sucker for a good margarita – fresh squeezed juices please!
9. Harry Potter is my favorite movie of all times
10. It’s also my favorite book
11. Followed closely by The Hunger Games trilogy
12. I can’t go anywhere without my sunglasses
13. Drinking “green juice” is one of my favorite things to do
14. I’m totally into juice cleanses
15. I have a cat named Stella – and I’m totally obsessed with her even though she hates strangers
16. I love carnitas. Pork Pork and more Pork!
17. Sometimes (read: all the time) I make spelling mistakes. It’s only natural right?
18. Farmers markets are my happy place
19. Peonies are my all time favorite flowers
20. I grew up in Arizona
21. Which means I can eat Mexican food 3 times a day and never get sick of it
22. Guacamole is my life
23. I eat it on just about anything except for fruit
24. I have a special place in my heart for fancy salts
25. I wrote my first cookbook in 2012 and it’s being published in April 2013
26. I played tennis in college
27. I love to travel
28. I’m dying to go to Morocco
29. I work as a private chef, food writer and recipe developer
30. Eating Burrata cheese off a spoon is one of my favorite pastimes
31. I have lots and lots freckles
32. I have a pretty serious sweet-tooth
33. I call my mom at least 5 times a day, I think sometimes she gets sick of it
34. I have a little bit of a lisp
35. Sometimes I have uncontrollable fits of laughter and I can’t breath
36. I love meeting new people
37. I love spending time with my friends
38. Bright Yellow mustard freaks me out
39. I have an obsession with Pinterest
40. I was a grilled cheese kind of kid and will always love a good grilled cheese
41. I make lists
42. I make lists to make more lists… its obsessive…
43. I went to Culinary School in 2009
44. Pastry school in 2010
45. I want a swim up guacamole bar when I have my own house with a pool
46. I got married in 2012
47. Have I told you that I love Guacamole? Because I do. A lot.
48. I have small feet – size 6
49. Sock buns are my life
50. The art of the cat nap is one of my specialties

p.s. some links on What’s Gaby Cooking are affiliate links. Which means I get a few pennies if you buy something that I recommend and then I turn around and spend it all on avocados to give you more fun recipes