I've been slacking on both my blogs, so I'm trying to change that now. I did suffer a hard drive crash last Christmas and lost about half of my recipe collection. Fortunately, I did have the other half printed out and in a binder. I'm still working on getting everything back in order, finding my favorite online sites, and thinking about what to do with this blog.
I was thinking today, while making lunch (This is seriously tasty, and was today's lunch!), that maybe instead of trying to come up with things to make or keeping some kind of log online of my collection, I could possibly just take some of my favorites posted elsewhere online - AllRecipes.com, for instance - and do a cook-along type of post. That would mean my taking pictures of each step from preparation through finished product, and I know many people prefer to see pictures along with a recipe rather than just reading it. Or, for someone like me who cannot begin to imagine how flavors will meld and things will look, it gives an idea of what to expect so that if something goes wrong it is evident.
I was thinking of making this change because I figured out that I plain don't enjoy cooking. I can do it, especially with a recipe in front of me, but I don't have any kind of passion for it. Poseidon and I were talking a couple months ago, and he asked me if I could taste the differences in anything - I think we'd gone out for lunch or something - and I honestly could not. I can't imagine how things will taste just based on the words in a recipe, and I'm not "allowed" to mess with a recipe ;) Been married for 7 1/2 years, cooking daily for almost 10, and I'm still learning some basic rules about it all!
So from now on, most of the posts here will be full of pictures of me cooking someone else's recipes. I may throw in a recipe of mine, or my mom or mother-in-law, from time to time, and they will also have pictures of how it's made step by step. I will have links to recipes I find online and make as well. I'll probably still only have a few in a month's time but I feel like I should make this blog more active than it has been. Bear with me :)
~Amphitrite
