Introduction

The purpose of this blog is to provide an outlet to share my kitchen creativity.While there is no real "Rosie's Bakery" of my own yet, someday I promise you there will be. Baking for me is an indescribable joy for me. 
The name Rosie comes from my first dog's name which was Rosie. She was a beautiful red golden retriever whom has always stayed with me, even though she passed away when I was 15.  My grandparents used to operate a diner named "Corky's" after my grandfathers dog he found in Italy during WWII. I guess it just felt fitting to follow the same idea I was stumped on a name and this just came to me. Rosie was a very special dog to me, and really held a special special place in my heart. I don't know why but after that idea came to mind, I can't think of naming my bakery anything else. Besides I'd like to devote a section of my bakery to making gourmet doggie desserts along with people desserts. Nothing crazy, just a few doggie cookies and biscuits. Maybe someday Rosie's will be a bakery for just dogs, and I can devote another establishment to humans. :)

It started for me in college, about my sophmore/junior year in college I really got into the trend of caking shows that were dominating TLC and Food Network. My housing area did not have a kitchen so I just got my fill watching late night airings of 'The Cake Boss'. 

Then junior year came and I came across an opportunity to take a cake decorating class at the Michael's Craft Stores offered by Wilton. This was really fun. So fun to where I considered dropping out of college to pursue cake decorating. I didn't and I moved back home instead and finished my college degree. In retrospect I should have followed this wild idea but I digress. That was my start into the idea of dessert making. 

Moving home was good  because it meant a kitchen. Bad because it meant my fiancee was six hours away back at college. Eventually the next year he moved in with me at my parents and joined the Army. We got married a few months later and he was off to Army Basic Training. Again baking was a huge stress relief for me at this time. On weekends I often couldn't sleep so I stayed up till 3-4 am baking. Baking anything we had ingredients for, pies, cakes, cookies, it was just fun. 

Well he survived basic training and I met him at graduation with a bag full of homemade cookies and a slice of homemade cheesecake (of which I carried in a lunch bag on a plane and kept overnight from Tampa, FL to South Carolina, IT WAS MY MISSION and his only request.) and again baking was a huge part of my life and I was not only so happy to see him (after 10 weeks apart) but to be able to have delicious homemade cheesecake for him. 

This brings us about here to where we are now. Married living in Korea, with no kids and two pet rabbits. (no dogs/cats allowed in our apartment)

 I currently work at a middle school as a para-professional and live in in Seoul, Korea and we are stationed here for a while. I graduated in 2011 with a bachelors degree in education studies- special education and really haven't done much with that besides this job I'm working currently. Teaching is a good job but it's not my passion. I've been working with a program to become a certified teacher but that has to be put on hold at the moment because of being in Korea. 
I want blog about my dessert making, on occasion life in Korea, and desserts in general.