I’m Hillary and welcome to my kitchen!
You’re on this page ‘cause you wanna know who the heck I am, aren’t you?
When I started this site, my day job was at an oil company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. My husband was a medical student. I now work at a nonprofit doing their “blog stuff!”
I love cooking, and he does the dishes. We’re truly a match made in Heaven.
Things you (don’t really) need to know about me:
- If I could live off of three foods, they’d be ice cream, chocolate and cheese.
- I like to have jam sessions in my kitchen.
- Inappropriate hip-hop music is my music of choice during said sessions.
- My favorite things to watch on TV are Jeopardy!, Food Network, and reruns of A Cinderella Story.
I started blogging for the first time when I went on a six-week trip abroad alone. It was a great way to keep my family informed about my adventures (and reassure my mom that I was alive). After returning, I continued its use as a personal blog, and had caught the “blog bug.” The next summer, I stayed in my college town (Tulsa) for an internship. From figuring out what I needed to eat everyday emerged a separate cooking blog. Since 2012, posts at SkinnyCookProblems were my outlet, for experimentation and sharing good ideas with others.
In early 2015, I felt like I had come to a crossroads about blogging. It was time to either go big, or go home. It was time to make the jump to self-hosting or quit altogether. After much prayer and pondering, I determined that my passion for cooking is too strong to give up on it. It was a perfect time to re-brand and get professional. Here I am, hope you like it!
I get JOY out of cooking, so I hope that you will #enJOY as well!
xxHillary
Hi Hillary,
Just wanted to let you know that I nominated you for a Leibster Award! Details on my website: http://www.evseats.com/leibster-award
Congratulations and good luck nominating — there’s a lot of talented bloggers out there.
Evi
Thank you!! 🙂
Great website! Looking forward to some new ideas to get me out of my daily cooking rut. Libby
Thanks, Grandmother! 🙂 Hope you can find something to try!
Would love for you to try one of our pasture chickens, just let me know how to get you a free sample.
Additional chickens are 5.00 a pound.
Thanks
Farmer Chris
Awesome!! I’ll get in touch. 🙂
Sounds great, I have whole or cut-up chickens, so whichever you prefer.
Hi HIllary!
I am new to the Tulsa area, but have had a lifestyle blog (Ashley Lauren Design Studio) for a couple years now. I would absolutely love to talk with you about collaborating with me, and/or having you do some food posts for my blog!
Please let me know if that would be of interest to you. If not, I would love to meet you sometime, regardless!
Have a great day!
Ash
Hi Ash! Yes, I’d love to talk to you! Feel free to shoot me an email. (Just catching up on my blog comments after vacation, so I apologize if you have already 🙂 )
Hey Hillary! YAY!
I can’t seem to find an email address for you. Please feel free to email me! ashley{@}ashleylaurendesignstudio{dot}com
Thanks so much! Can’t wait to hear from you!
oh, i can so relate to the “a cinderella story” reruns; i don’t even know how many times i’ve seen the football game scene at the end with the water droplet and his jaw and ugh.
“and ugh” is my sentiment exactly.
Wow….small world. I was looking up your recipe for Tattie Scones and thought you looked familiar. I know of your mom through adoption. My daughter Bay was adopted from S. Korea. Love the blog and can’t wait to try the recipe!
Oh, very cool! 🙂
Yes, moving back to Oklahoma has made this world very small!
Hi Hillary! I came across your site while on a search for Harry Potter themed food for halloween. I live in Miami, Ok. Just wanted to send a friendly, “Hey Neighbor!” to you!
Well hello fellow Okie!
OMG. I was just spending a bit of time researdhing dockrail recipes about Pimms. I saw this listed on a menu lastnight here in Pensacola, Florida. Then I found your recipe and comment about discovering it for the first time when traveouling overseas…Everyone was drinking piimms and play8ing a dice game with a flip cup.
Being from Kansas, originallhy, I thought it rather “friivilous”. But once I caught on it was just Fun!
Same kind of story and experience.
Thanks for bringing up a good long ago memory from a trip to the islands when I was much younger.
I love that I got to bring back a fun memory for you!