I’m Jaime Mormann.

It’s so nice to meet you.

I started this blog a couple years back, when I was getting frustrated that my kids weren’t eating the food I made. I figured if they didn’t like it, I could photograph it, put it on the internet, and at least somebody’s kid could enjoy it. At the same time, I felt that I was letting too much TV creep into our family and shape who my children were becoming (i.e. my last kid’s first word was “Spongebob”). So I created this blog to serve as a pathway toward family goals. I called it “sophistimom” as I reminder to keep trying to expose my kids to great literature, art, cultures, music, and food whenever I can.

As far as getting to know me . . .

You already know I like French pastries, but they are worth mentioning again. More specifically, I love anything made with puff pastry, as long as the puff pastry is made with butter.

I prefer fruity desserts to chocolatey desserts.

I have tried to eat a vegan diet a few times.

It didn’t stick. Butter is not vegan.

I love to read. But oddly enough, once I started a blog about reading and cooking, I ended up doing more cooking and a lot less reading.

Even though I have lived away from New England for close to twenty years, that’s still where I say I’m from.

I was writing two novels when I took a little detour and started a blog. I am starting to work on them again.

I’m a huge C.S. Lewis fan.

I went to BYU and got a Bachelor’s Degree in Design.

I lived in Canada for eighteen months as a missionary for my church.

I spoke French there.

My French is horrible now.

I’m a sucker for Jane Austen books made into movies. I love most of them, though I don’t think anyone has gotten Persuasion spot on yet.

I still lug around my two-hundred issues of Martha Stewart magazines every time we move.

One day, I will write a cookbook.

And then I’ll finish my novels. You’ll be the first to know when I’m done.

All photographs and recipes are my original work unless I state otherwise.  If you would like to use them for personal use, feel free to do so, but please cite me as the photographer/writer.  Thanks.  (While we’re on the subject, my nine-year-old took that picture of me.)

If you need to reach me, email me at jaimeemormann @ yahoo . com (just leave out the spaces, of course.)