I live in the beautiful city of San Francisco where food, ingredients, and creativity reigns supreme. Oh, and so does wine. And whiskey. While I work in finance on the weekdays, I spend my weekends and evenings obsessing over food, recipes, and photography. And wine and whiskey.

My food blog, www.MarinaGirlEats.com are my recipes separated into four "F-word" categories:

• Farm-to-Table: fresh and fast recipes for your gluten-free life
• Foreign: ideas and inspirations from my international travels
• Fancy: frivolish and froufrou things I make for Sunday night Family Dinner
• Four-One-One: Technical lessons and information to help you (and me!) become a better cook

These four categories are meant to educate and inspire every day cooking. And give me an excuse to cook with wine and whiskey. Although I'm a paleo practicioner, I promise not to push that crazy diet on you because (a) I love making everything from bread to cheese and (b) a blog of fish and spinach is sooooo booring.

Please visit my site www.MarinaGirlEats.com and sign up to follow so I can send you shameless posts/tweets/facebook requests on anything from perfect mashed potatoes to burbon brownies, to perfectly cooked lamb and all the way over to making your own butter.

XOXO, Erica