"Scratch" Eating

In our house, we believe eating to be one of the great pleasures in life, and "banning" entire food groups to generally just not be very fun, and so "Scratch" eating was born. This lifestyle operates on 2 basic principles: Everything in Moderation & Know What You're Eating. We eat organic, free-range, hormone-free, wild-caught, nitrate-free, and FRESH for as many things as we can. We don't eat anything with soy in it (because it is SO BAD for you!) and we avoid corn-syrup because it is just added unnecessarily to way too many things. Basically, everything we eat is made from scratch. We make it, which means we control the ingredients, and we feel like that's a pretty great principle in eating.

Part of scratch cooking is learning to love your kitchen. This blog is called The Copper Kitchen, because as a metalsmith, metal and especially copper holds a special place in my heart and my kitchen reflects that. From painted walls and copper backsplash to decaled appliances and spraypainting a trashcan, i made my kitchen one of my favorite rooms in the house and I encourage you to do the same!