Happy New Year!
Welcome to the year of the Tiger and Sensei Cooks.

This is my last post under Muse in the Kitchen.

Muse in the Kitchen was a blog Belle’s created and named. She did the writing and I did the cooking. Now she has past the writing off to me and the name just doesn’t fit me.

I teach martial arts for a living – karate, aikido, judo and jodo. They have been my passion for the last 30 odd years. Funny because about 1 or 2 years before I got involved in the martial arts, I loved to cook. Back then I had cable TV and worked in the insurance business so I was home a lot during the day and worked in the evenings. While at home I watched “The Galloping Gourmet” with Graham Kerr and “Wok with Yan” Then when I started in the martial arts, I gave up the cooking and focused on only one thing. Not a good idea. I did not have balance in my life.

Now I am able to do both, thanks to the support of my wife Belle and our family. So the new name reflects the martial arts (part of my life) and the passion for cooking (the other part).

Please join me at Sensei Cooks and share with me the truly wonderful world of cooking. I have no particular style or cultural bent. I love it all. I love cooking so the recipes and dishes will be taken from everywhere in the world.

I hope to move everything over to the new blog soon, so bear with me. Things will be changing as I experiment with everything on this new blog. Any suggestions or comments are always welcome.