If you read the comments each week on Ingredient Spotlight posts, then you’re already acquainted with Loy.  She has been leaving wonderful recipes each week in the comments, because she wanted to share, but didn’t have a blog to link to.  I’ve enjoyed getting to know her through her comments and wanted to know her better, so I asked if I could interview her.

Tell us about yourself.

I have alluded to it in a couple of my comments, but will “fess up” that I am  almost 70 years old and married to a wonderful husband for almost 50 years.  We have 3 children (2 girls, 1 boy) and 3 almost grown grandchildren (2 girls, 1 boy).  I worked for a major retailer for almost 28 years.  In 2002, I retired from there and took a “retirement job” in a local quilt shop.  We live on 25 acres in central Washington state where we raised our kids who had ponies and horses growing up.  Now we raise “sagebrush”.  I have to confess that I am really an “occasional cook”.  Since I work four nights a week, I only make dinner meals the other three.  My husband is a great leftover eater so, when I cook, I make lots of roast, stews, casseroles, etc. to get those leftovers.  I do make lunch everyday, and make lots of soups.  Besides cooking, my other interests are sewing and quilting.

Who taught you to cook or how did you learn to cook?

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