Hello- glad you’re here! I’m starting this blog with the hopes of talking about the nightly dinner grind. I am a new(ish) mom, a full time actuarial analyst that is studying towards her accreditation, and someone who wishes that they had more time to work out and is hoping to keep the middle age sag away.
I love to cook, and wish I could be a professional food blogger. I like making meal plans & love trying new recipes. My newest project I’ve given myself is trying to be like Julie and Julia (did you ever see that movie?) and I’ve been cooking through a cookbook. Ok… it’s actually a cooking magazine. (I wanted to start with something approachable, you know?) Ok, it’s not even like a hardcore cooking magazine, it’s Family Circle. But it’s got like 50 something recipes and it’s taking me FOREVER. I would like to use this blog to document my adventures with that too.
Why do this?
- It forces me to try new recipes that are out of my usual comfort zone
- I was buying a crap ton of cookbooks and magazines and I wasn’t cooking from them. I think I was doing it because I actually missed cooking and wanted to fill that void with being able to flip through the pages of a magazine/cookbook and look at stuff I’d like to cook (the magazines I had subscribed to were Eatingwell, cooking light, taste of home and Fine Cooking. I also previously subscribed to Bon Appetit) So now I have a whole bunch of them and it’s time I start using them!
- I get a weird satisfaction from it…. I don’t know
This blog probably won’t have many recipes that are written by me- unless I have something that I think is truly unique and delicious. I am not going to take a tried and true recipe and tweak an ingredient and then call it mine…. and I’m not going to write a recipe to something that is basically common sense, either. However, you never know. If I start feeling like doing some recipe testing, you’ll be the first do know. 🙂
Thanks for checking my blog out! Enjoy!
Mama V Makes Dinner 