Hello all, Welcome to my happy place...also known as Kitchen Cartel :]
Kitchen Cartel is a food and recipe blog created by myself (Nikki) and my sister (Jill) in order to share recipes and culinary experiences with family and friends.
By day I am a culinary student trying to find my niche in the chef world while Jill works in Marketing. After years of admiring various food blogs, we decided that we could turn our love of cooking together into a site of our own. After much hard work and dirty dishes we have been able to make our dream a reality.
The name "Kitchen Cartel" is a play off of "Confetti Cartel". For those of you who may know our cousin Ryan, you know that he is quite the character and has been since birth. Before holidays or major family events he would force all of us kids to sit around and shred paper into confetti to be thrown in the air at some pre-determined time. Weeks of preparation went into the confetti making! Ryan always created some elaborate mechanism to make the climactic confetti drop (always less dramatic than imagined). As we have grown up and realized how pathetically funny this practice was (and how much work it was to clean up) we affectionately refer to those times as the "confetti cartel" days. To this day it is still a running joke in our family and we look back on those memories fondly.
When it came time to think of a name for the blog, Jill and I thought it could only be one thing...Confetti Cartel. Confetti Cartel was soon modified to Kitchen Cartel and the rest is history. The name incorporates both our love of all things food and family :]
We hope you enjoy the recipes and posts! Feel free to leave comments or even requests for recipes that you would like to have us test or create :]
-Nikki and Jill