Well, here we go. I do not know what I am doing here at 10:00 pm on a Wednesday night in October of 2010 sitting at the computer writing the first post of my food blog. I have officially lost it!! I knew the insomnia from the "pause" (Menopause!!) was getting to me but really a food blog??
As all other food bloggers will tell you, they LOVE food! I am no different. I am a Registered Nurse turned High School teacher with a burning desire to do something with food. I wanted to start a restaurant, but I was too much of a scaredy cat to jump out there. I wanted to be a caterer, but after helping a good friend with an event, I knew that I was in over my head. So to satisfy my addiction, I keep ordering cookbooks and food magazines and reading and reading and reading them. I keep cooking for my family and friends. I keep making up menus for this event and that event - some real and some pretend. I am most happy and satisfied when I doing something with food.
So then an idea popped into this old brain of mine...I could start a food blog. But the old brain asked how would it be different from all the other blogs out there? So "we" started thinking and thinking, and one day the old brain just popped it out. I would put to use my hundreds of cookbooks and food magazines. I have all these cookbooks and magazines but don't utilize them like I should. I might cook one or two recipes out of one,and then they go on the shelf. So here is the plan....I will randomly select a cookbook and using the "Eeny Meeny Miny Mo" method of making a choice, the game would select a recipe. I would then prepare it and blog about it. There will be no redos of the process if I don't happen to care for the recipe the game chooses. No Cheating!! By the way...what a coincidence. I looked up "Eeny Meeny Miny Mo" to make sure I was spelling it correctly, and I found that it was actually a song written by Johnny Mercer. The same Johnny Mercer from Savannah, GA where Paula Deen - my all-time favorite cook- lives. This is definitely a sign!!
I am so excited that I cannot even tell you. I hope you will enjoy this adventure as much as I know I will. I am now going to try to go to sleep and start in the morning!! If the "pause" is cruel to me tonight, I might just start right now. Here we go!!
