Welcome to Cooking With Sage
Where flavor, fun, and food experiments come together
I’ve been obsessed with food for as long as I can remember. I mean I wrote my first recipe on a notecard when I was 7 or 8. It was for ‘Cheesey Eggs.’
When I was in 5th grade, I wrote a cookbook “Betty Crocker” and me. I produced 3 copies including some of my favorite recipes, recipes inspired by Roald Dahl’s classics, and scratch and sniff stickers! Two of the books were for my favorite elementary school teachers - Ms. Woods and Mrs. Garcia.
Like Dorothy, I am originally from Kansas. Growing up, I spent my summer’s growing gardens, running around cow pastures with my cousins, and playing loads of soccer.
From there, I attended the California State University of Long Beach. My world exploded. Any kind of food you could imagine was at my fingertips – pho, tacos, sushi, shawarma, crepes, grilled cheese, pasta, lo mein… any flavor you could ever want within a 30-minute drive (without traffic – it is LA after all.)
I kept cooking the whole time. My last semester of college, I spent studying abroad in Hamburg, Germany. While there, one of my friends and I threw multiple large parties. One of which was an “American Breakfast” party. There is nothing like cooking a full-American breakfast for 40+ college students with all the fixings – pancakes, eggs, streaky bacon, homemade berry syrup, and booze. Post-breakFEAST we were all going to a Holi music festival. Not pictured here are the mounds of food, booze, and dishes we all cleaned up.
I moved back to the states with a college degree and found myself living again in Stilwell, Kansas, at my parent’s house. I moved to San Diego for 6 months for work. While there, I hosted parties on my rooftop, and BBQ’d for loads of friends. Somewhere along the way, I began playing quidditch (a long story), moved to Washington, DC, moved to Berlin on March 1, 2020 (a very long story) and back to DC!
All along the way I’ve cooked. I’ve made friends by cooking and eating with them. My then Girlfriend - Now Wife encouraged me to start writing recipes down and now we’re here!
Cooking With Sage is a place to celebrate great food, creative experiments and document it all along the way.
Thanks for joining me on this wild ride.
Alexandria Sage