How I Started as a Food Blogger
Xin Chào!
My name is Vicky Pham. A mother of two and wife of one.
In 2014, I quit the corporate world and said tạm biệt to the 9-to-5. I realized after having kids that I couldn’t do it all. I couldn't be the mother that I wanted to be while working a full-time job outside the home. Thanks to my husband, I was able to rechannel my time and energy onto more important things — raising our children and taking care of our families.
When I’m not an uncompensated full-time taxi driver, personal chef, and laundry machine operator to my two children, I spend my spare time practicing and perfecting traditional Vietnamese home-cooking recipes.
I didn't have the opportunity to learn how to cook from my parents when I was growing up. My parents were preoccupied with making each others’ lives miserable.
I finally learned from my mother-in-law when I married young to get away. She pushed cooking on me initially for what I believed to not starve her newly-wedded son. Even though I was peeved that every recipe was prefaced with, “He likes this dish so this is how you make it,” I finally gave in and allowed her to show me the way. And I'm so forever thankful for her help.
I created this blog to keep track of my notes from her teachings. Along the way, this blog was born. My goal for this blog is to document some of my favorite traditional Vietnamese dishes … to translate “just add enough until it’s right” into recipes so that they can be accessible to anyone who’s also willing to learn and who doesn’t have anyone to turn to.
This website is still very much a one-woman show. Recipe testing, writing, videography, photography, and editing are all done by yours truly with some occasional website and coding help from the incredibly geeky husband.
So welcome to my humble online abode. Kick off your shoes. Peruse my recipes. If you get a chance, leave me a comment below or connect with me on social media. I’m so glad you’re here.
Một, hai, ba, vô!
Vicky
A little more about myself and my family: Hello Vietnam. Goodbye 2014.
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