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Me in front of my prop closet – Curtis built those shelves for me!

All About Julie Deily

2010 Komen Tampa 3-Day for the Cure

Born in southern California, I’m the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants. I have lived most of my life in Florida where I still reside. I’m married to an awesome guy who is my chief taste tester and we have two dogs and two cats. I’m a software engineer and I’m passionate about food, my pets and the breast cancer cause. I’m always volunteering for stuff, unable to say no especially if it’s something I care deeply about it. I love to organize events, in the past I have organized my 10-year high school reunion, been on the planning committee for the 2008 International Cake Exploration Societe‘s Convention & Show in Orlando, Florida, have been on the planning committee for the Komen Central Florida Race for the Cure for the past three years and recently helped organize Food Blog Forum Orlando twice, a day-long seminar for food bloggers. Last year, I walked nearly 60 miles in 3 days in the Susan G. Komen Tampa 3-Day for the Cure and it was an awesome experience (and of course I blogged about it). I’m constantly involved in something and that’s the way I like it.

I got my love of food and cooking from my Mom. I learned in college while I was living on my own that I shared her love of feeding people. When people would come over to my apartment, I would try to feed them and they couldn’t leave without some kind of food. My first kitchen disaster happened in college when I attempted to make banana bread for my co-workers, I forgot the baking powder. And yes I cried because I wasted so many good ripe bananas. I have had many kitchen disasters since then and I always learn from them and pick up and keep going.

If you have any questions or would like to contact me, please email me at julie (at) thelittlekitchen (dot) net or fill out this contact form.

All About The Little Kitchen

I started this blog in December 2009 after an email conversation with my sister, Connie. I had been hosting holiday dinners for our family at my house for several years and was constantly sharing the recipes I cooked with my family and friends via email. After a few emails back and forth, we came up with the name. The name The Little Kitchen comes from me having a very little kitchen. After convincing my husband to draw up a quick logo and four days later, I started The Little Kitchen blog.

The old logo for the little kitchen is actually the layout of my kitchen!

I love food but I don’t consider myself a food snob. I don’t judge others for the food choices and I don’t want anyone to judge me. I sometimes cut corners like a lot of people and I constantly am fighting time to get dinner on the table.

I am a firm believer that you don’t have to have a huge kitchen to make gourmet meals. What you see on The Little Kitchen is what we like to eat. There are no pretenses, I only share what I like. The same goes for products and brands, I only share the ones I like and the ones that actually go into my shopping cart. Since I don’t eat pork, you won’t see much of that although I do cook it for my husband because it’s pretty much his favorite meat.

Occasionally, I decorate cakes for family and friends. It’s definitely an adventure making buttercream and covering cakes in fondant in a little kitchen but I manage. Several years ago, I took all four Wilton cake decorating courses at my local crafts store.

I’m a self-taught home cook and I take my own photographs. I’m constantly striving to better my cooking skills as well as my photography skills. I currently shoot with a Canon Rebel XS dSLR Canon 5D Mark II and primarily use my 24-70mm lens and the 50mm 1.8f  1.4f lens. (Those are affiliate links.)

Please feel free to contact me or email me at julie [at] thelittlekitchen [dot] net with any questions, suggestions or comments.

Press | Guest Posts

Guest Post on DearCrissy.com | September 2010
Guest Post on SteamyKitchen.com | February 2011
Tampa Tribune Interview | March 2011
Organizer of Food Blog Forum Orlando | April 2011
Organizer of Central Florida Food Blogger Bake Sale | May 2011
Presenter at Florida Chapter of ICES Day of Sharing | June 2011
Moderator & Panelist at Central Florida Blogger Conference | July 2011
Guest Post on DearCrissy.com | November 2011
Guest Post on GoodLife eats, etc. | November 2011
Co-Organizer of 2011 Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap | December 2011
Organizer of Food Blog Forum Orlando | March 2012
The Kitchn Delicious Links | June 2012
Speaker at Central Florida Blogger Conference | September 2012
Appeared in Hershey’s Kitchens video | November 2012
Co-Organizer of 2012 Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap | December 2012
Co-Organizer of Food Blog Forum Orlando | May 2013
Speaker at BlogHer Food | June 2013

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The Little Kitchen is a registered mark owned by Julie Deily and  {just a little note} to please ask my permission before reposting any of my photographs anywhere. Please do not copy any recipes I have posted on this site without permission. If you do decide to repost, at least rewrite the instructions in its entirety and link back to my site. Copying and pasting is not cool. This is an awesome article about recipe attribution.