About me

Hello everyone,
Thank you for stopping by my page here on Cook Eat Share. I guess this thing needs some updating as many things have changed for the better and web sites have been changed or expanded.

To tell you a little bit about where I come from, I was a Master Piano Teacher for 20 who was married to a real Rocket Scientist for 15 years.

I have been "on my own" for about 10 years now and am looking for my next "Mr Wonderful" that I can share my world with when I am not writing, creating a document or writing web content, playing the piano or writing chapters on my upcoming books.

I have a company called MyTotallyInsipredPC.com and I am the "inspired one" behind the PC or personal computer I use to create resumes, presentations, web content and other documents. I like what I do because I create what has never been created before and I write the words that others can't think of. The jobs are always different and I learn something with each one I do.

I also write Feature Stories for restaurants in Orange County and beyond with my site called The California Restaurant Showcase at:
http://www.CARestaurantShowcase---soon to be published.
I syndicate the article I write on Twitter, Facebook, Foodbuzz, where I am a Featured Publisher and also on Yelp.

I am on the Best of CA list on Twitter and an editor is now syndiating all my Feature Stories there. :-)

I would love to find someone who also loved cooking; it has always been my dream to just happen to make a living doing what I love.

I usually accomplish anything I set my mind to do. If I can visualize it; I can accomplish and become it! I am writing a book called "Self Fulfilling Prophecies & Positive Affirmations" that will have several contributing authors adding their special expertise.

If you want to get on my book list, just email me at:

[email protected]

Started cooking when I was 9 years old when I was given my first cookbook from my cousin Pat called "Betty Crocker's Boys and Girls Cook Book", which slowly grew to a book bag, and now I have about 1000 volumes in my collection. They don't just sit on shelves though and I do READ THEM and USE THEM! :-)

I have been creating a web platform over the last 3 years regarding food writing, cooking, and I hope to obtain a job as a freelance writer in a major food magazine in the near future.

I strive for excellence in everything I do or I don't do it at all.

I was raised that way and I am glad my mom made me the only Paulette Le Pore Motzko in the world.

Come join my cooking blog at: http://CookingUpAStorminCA.ning.com

It features recipes from all over the world, kitchen wisdom, and more!

I look forward to hearing from you and seeing what's been cooking in your kitchen in your corner of the world!

You can see my Recipe Pages on Group Recipes at:

http://www.GroupRecipes.com/people/pollymotzko

and

http://www.GroupRecipes.com/people/pollymotzko2

You can also find me on FoodBuzz-at this address:

http://www.foodbuzz.com/foodies/us/california/profile/polly%20motzko

You can find me on Twitter and Facebook by my nickname of "Polly Motzko". Follow me and tell me you are from CookEatShare. :-) I am so pleased that I have about 430 followers now on Twitter and over 300 on Facebook. Someone likes something I am doing!

Enjoy and share the fruits of your labors in the kitchen with good friends and those you love.

If you have read this far, I wish you health and peace in your life.

Paulette Le Pore Motzko
Polly Motzko

Cooking Influences

My Nanny lived with us when I was a small child, who was my dad's mother and brought her piano with her and also her love of cooking for others. Little would I know how influential she would be in my life, and that of my mother.

I grew up in a home where I saw people making wonderful dishes that people loved over and over-with smiles on their faces. My Nanny taught me things like cream puffs when I was in 6th grade and I own the pot she used for that and many other dishes.
She was a poor woman but rich in the sense that she could do a lot with a little-which is actually more difficult than the contrary!

My father loved cooking Italian dishes that his father before him made and he loved making homemade breads and cooking the bounty from the huge garden he tended.
His father was from Argentina but his father was from Italy-so I have "Italian in my genes!"

My mother cooked American Regional dishes and I have made her Tuna Patties over and over and loved them each time, adapting them to crab and salmon as well as making some amazing fish cakes made with a trio of: crab, salmon and tuna. Her mother, Ruby Hart, made homemade bread that I never got to try, but I remember eating her divinity out of a pie pan when I was 4 years old. I only wish I could have known her when I was younger.