The Method to Our Madness

We’re a couple working gals, just like most of you, unless you’re a man, and then, well, you know. . . we’re not. We also have to come up with something healthy and tasty, that doesn’t destroy the planet, to eat every night of the week. So if you look at it that way, in that we are saving the planet, you can call us SUPER KC and Shanna Ree! Okay, back to reality. We have several criteria for our recipes. In fact it gets a bit confusing at times. Is it more important to be organic? Local? Fair-trade? Well, our main focus is on superfoods. With a secondary focus on local and seasonal foods. And above all, we want to make recipes for REAL people. People with jobs. People who care. We know everybody can’t make a decision to eat only food grown within a 100 mile radius of their home. We know not everybody can afford organic foods. It’s all about making the best choices that you can for who you are and what you want for our world and your health. That’s Gettin’ Fresh!TM

So what is all this Gettin’ Fresh!TM stuff about anyway? Well someday (soon) we’re going to publish a cookbook: Gettin’ Fresh!TM in the Kitchen with KC and Shanna Ree. This blog is all about gettin’ ready for that cookbook. We post about one recipe per month. Experiments, tests, and proto-types. So bear with us, after all, practice makes perfect! We also post our take on food issues that we think are important. Local, seasonal, organic, fair trade. . . And best of all we’ll post our Fresh! Food Field Trips! Our first couple, the trip to NOLA and NYC, have already been posted along with recipes inspired by the trips. We’ll fill you in on each of our expeditions. The good, the bad, and the Fresh!

In reality this whole thing is one big Fresh! Food Field Trip. Join us in our journey. Let us know what you think. Where we’ve gone wrong. What you love. What you’d like to taste. We’ll get around to telling you all about why we’ve chosen superfoods. And why local and seasonal foods top our list.

But for now let us introduce ourselves. And believe me, you want to know us, honey! Not only are we a couple of spicy, sassy, cheeky ladies, aka Fresh! but we are going to be famous some day. Well at least KC is. Shanna Ree doesn’t want to have any part of that.

KC (aka tinabit, inky, and snugglupagus) has been doing fractions since she was four. Well that’s what her mother always said. At any rate she’s been halving and doubling recipes and otherwise helping her mother in the kitchen for as long as she can remember. In college she moved out of the dorms so she could cook her own food. I mean, really, cafeteria food? She became a vegetarian for environmental reasons and although she's no longer a vegetarian, a whole new world of foods opened up for her. A world of quinoa, tofu, bulger, amaranth, taro, legumes. And a world of ethnic cooking she had never dreamed of. KC lives in Aberdeen MD with her sweetheart, dog, and two cats.

Shanna Ree grew up in the “foodie capitol” of the US (the San Francisco Bay Area) where food is more than a way of life, it is essential to the soul! Shanna honed her epicurean expertise (snobby, huh?) after many years of indentured servitude in all facets of the food industry; cashier, hostess, waitress, prep-cook, kitchen mama, and finally Caterer. She's often been accused of being a coffee snob, a cocktail snob, and a mountain snob, but that's a whole other story! Although her Southern family roots, (hence the Shanna Ree), keep her hankering for the “crispy fried crunch” in life, her not so fun health issues have steered her towards the fresh and fabulous. Admittedly, her favorite food group is the “cocktail category”…and yes, this too can be fresh and fabulous! Shanna lives in Baltimore, Maryland (not a food capitol by the way!) with her loving husband Geoff and her fuzz ball pooch Samantha.