About

Welcome to Little Red Delicious!

My name is Deanna, aka Little Red! I am a compact 20-something-year-old redhead who dreams about worlds made of fruit and desserts!  I was inspired to start this blog after spending countless late nights stumbling the internet looking at food blogs.  My friends and family found this behaviour ironic, since I once was (and kinda still am) the pickiest eater in the world.  The more I started looking at food blogs and trying new recipes out myself, the more I started to believe that I too, could blog about my new experiences with food.

Growing up I had a limited menu to choose from.  My diet consisted of pasta with tomato sauce, grilled cheese sandwiches, pizza, Cheerio’s with milk, (and without), cucumbers, watermelon and apples.  No exaggeration.  I didn’t eat meat for the first 18 years of my life, and could count the number of vegetables I ate on one hand.  As I got older, my limited diet began to give me anxiety.  I learned how to accept the teasing from my family and disapproval from my Italian grandmother, but as I became more independent and social I found it uncomfortable to order at restaurants and almost unbearable to go to a friend’s house for dinner.  The more people pushed me to try new things, the more I resisted.

It wasn’t until I started living with roommates in university that I really started to learn how to cook.  Now lets make one thing clear: I always knew how to bake.  My grandmothers on both sides are amazing bakers. My mom is an amazing baker.  I could bake a million and one things even if I refused to eat most of them.  What I always liked about baking was how methodological it was to me.  Coming from a science and math background, the idea of following a step by step recipe reminded me of my labs, but less stressful and with a more delicious outcome.  Cooking on the other hand was always more abstract to me.

In the last year, my menu has skyrocketed and I have gone from eating ~80% carbs to ~80% fruits and vegetables.  The only relationship that hasn’t changed is my passionate relationship with cookies. I love cookies. Give me a cookie right now.

So, as 2012 started, I made it my New Years Resolution to start my own food blog.  I wanted an outlet to help me take my mind off of school and express my interests in more unique ways.  I love reading blogs and looking at photos, so I also wanted to improve on my writing and photography skills.  From this blog I hope to challenge myself to try new recipes and new foods.  I hope that one day I will be able to share my own recipes as well.

For now, I hope you enjoy following me down this path.

Best,

Red