Hello

[CharlieD]

Introduction, I guess is in order.

Though I see a lot of familiar faces, for those who do not know me, allow me to introduce my self. I was born and raised in Kiev Ukraine, until I came to the USA on my 30 birthday. I went to culinary school for about a month or two until under pressure from my parents I had to quit and go to University to become a mechanical engineer, I hate anything mechanical. So you can imagine how much I like my job. But cooking always was my interest, maybe not passion, but real interest.
I keep kosher, ( I can explain later if somebody is interested what that entails) though only for the last 9 years or so, before that I’ve managed to try and eat quite few things of various degrees of weirdness, so I know thing or two about cooking and eating pretty much anything addible, except bugs. That is where I draw the line. No bugs on my menu.
So here I am, thanks to Jeekinz, who invited me.

Let’s cook and eat.

[lilylove]

Charlie!! Good to see you here!! Thanks for coming on over!

[chowhound]

Nice to see you again, Charlie.

Fred

[sattie]

Yo Yo Yo Charlie!!! Glad to see ya here buddy!

[Doc]

Hi Charlie. GREAT intro. Thanks. Welcome to Net Cooking Talk. I'm glad you decided to join the party. :thumb:
Enjoy and post often. :thumb: :D

[Doc]

Sattie, Sattie ... you sure do not deserve that avatar. You are not a dork in my book. :tiphat:

[jim_slagle]

Welcome to the Forum! :tiphat:

Glad you're here!

Jim

[High Cheese]

Thanks for coming CharlieD!

[homecook]

Welcome Charlie......good to see you here!!


Barb

[Calicolady]

Yo Yo Yo Charlie!!! Glad to see ya here buddy!

That's Philly + 2!
You go girl!

Hey Charlie. Glad to have you join us.

[suziquzie]

Hi CHarlie!!!

[PanchoHambre]

Hello CharlieD!

and Hi to Karen too... her welcome thread won't let me in

[chowhound]

I had just hit enter in Karen's thread when the site went down and the page wouldn't load. I wonder if that corrupted her thread?

[jim_slagle]

and Hi to Karen too... her welcome thread won't let me in

I had just hit enter in Karen's thread when the site went down and the page wouldn't load. I wonder if that corrupted her thread?

You're getting a database error? Doc's working on it.

Jim

[jim_slagle]

try Karen's intro thread again. Looks like Doc has it fixed.

Jim

[chowhound]

try Karen's intro thread again. Looks like Doc has it fixed.

Jim

He's a busy guy that Doc :biggrin:

[TexasGirl]

Charlie!! Welcome!!!http://gi81.photobucket.com/groups/j204/7NMEJZIE9R/drippinwelcum.gif

[Maverick2272]

Hey Charlie welcome to the site!!!

[PieSusan]

Shalom, Charlie! :-) I didn't know you kept kosher. Hmm, during the holidays, I shall have to share some family recipes for you.

[QSis]

Hi Charlie!

Welcome!

Lee

[CharlieD]

Shalom, Charlie! :-) I didn't know you kept kosher. Hmm, during the holidays, I shall have to share some family recipes for you.

I'll tell you more, I'm frum. :wink:

[Calicolady]

Oh, oh. I hope we don't offend you Charlie. If we do, please speak up, okay? Deal?
We're (most of us) are just feeling our oats being able to speak our minds for awhile.
I'm sure the bus will settle down, once we get on the road and the sugar rush runs out.

[CharlieD]

Hi.
First of all there was nothing offencive said or done. Not from where I stand.
Second of all, i am not easily offended.
Third of all the one who will try to offend me would know that he/she did right away. I'm not shy that way, and wouldn't have any problem to stand up for my self. (I guess that is one of the reasons I'm here, and not there)
;)