No. 1

Here we go! My first ever blog! Brace yourself, I have a tendency to overuse ellipses and exclamation points!

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Well the idea behind this is to help me learn how to write better and to get my all important opinion and viewpoint out there... You know, THERE in that big void of internet space that needs filling with my ideas, dreams and FEELINGS. I have no prior experience with this other than a few myspace blogs about how I hate people and how depressed I was. Ew. Nobody wants to read that. Not even me! Perhaps especially not me!

My general idea for how I want this whole blogging thing to go is that I want to chronicle my adventures into not being a picky eater. I recently decided that I wanted to cook better, and I wanted to write about how that made me feel. How cooking can just relax you, calm you down and make everything clearer. I mean, if you can throw a whole bunch of things in a pan and know that for once, this thing is going to come out right, that is a huge deal. If nothing else is going right at least you can make something good to eat. How comforting is that??? For me it is the most comforting thing in the world.

The only problem with that is as you can see, I don't eat green things. I would rather give you a list of things that I DO eat than what I DON'T. I would just be simpler. Not to mention shorter!

Saying that I don't eat green things is maybe a slight exaggeration. I do eat things that are green like artichokes and lettuce, but until a couple of years ago, it was very very true. I did not like vegetables. I was a carbohydrate girl! I still am, I love bread. LOVE. But I've been starting to branch out. I still don't like onions, but I will eat soups or sauces that have them cooked in. I am more willing to try new things and I haven't had too many bad experiences. I usually like what I eat. Now I just have to merge the cooking with the eating adventuresomeness.

Not only am I a pretty inexperienced cook with a very small range of dishes in my repertoir, I am still pretty squeemish when it comes to raw meat. It really grosses me out. Like, a lot. Also, I'm living with my husband and 4 other roommates and the kitchen is a complete mess all the time. All the time. So it doesn't feel safe to have raw meat in that space. I just don't want meaty dishes that have been raw meatified to be in the kitchen, just hanging out in the incredibly full sink. So my cooking has been very minimal. I also don't really know how to cook. I'm good at faking it with my own recipes.

Secret: use lots of butter and garlic!

So we'll be on an adventure together! I'm looking forward to sharing with you all my failures and successes! Next time, I will tell you a little more about myself and where I'm at and what's up.

I hope you will enjoy the trip! See you next fall!

Meredith