This is not necessarily a dedicated food blog, but most of what I post is about food my husband and I have recently made. By no means am I a professional chef, but a girl (and her hubby) has to eat so here we are. My husband, Mike, is much better with main courses than I am, and I am the household dessert expert so we complement each other well.
My cooking philosophy is three-fold:
1. “My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.” – Mahatma Gandhi
2. Go by the recipe the first time, edit after that. I figure, there is a reason someone took the time to write down all the ingredients and steps necessary to make a tasty meal so why mess with it before even trying it? If it doesn’t work for us or we think it needs this or that, then we edit and make it our own. If you read my blog entries you’ll probably notice that I post the original recipe, with my notes in parenthesis and in a different color, and at the end I talk about what I thought worked and what I’ll do differently next time.
3. No one ever eats a cookie saying, “I’m eating this because it’s great for my diet.”
To give an idea of what types of things I usually bake, my favorite ingredients include liquor, chocolate and coffee; one or all three will usually end up in my desserts. Fruit would be a staple in my food too, but it tends to be really expensive most of the time so unfortunately I don’t use it as often as I’d like. Some of my favorite desserts are Chocolate Cappuccino Cheesecake, Cake Brownies (thus named because they are as thick as cake and as dense as brownies), Frozen Coffee Cream with Chocolate Covered Cherries, Fruit Pizza, Whiskey Cookies, and Bärenjäger (honey liqueur) infused whipped cream.
If I’m not talking about food my husband and I have recently made I’ll probably be talking about living in Duluth, MN. We’ve been here just over a year now and we love it. There is so much to do here for free or cheap and it’s so easy to spend our time outside having fun.
There is so much to enjoy in life there is no reason to be unhappy with what you already have. That’s what this blog is mainly about. Using what you have been giving and making what you have on hand work for what you need. I can’t run to the grocery store every time I find a recipe that has an ingredient I don’t. We are on a budget, just like many other people, and we just can’t afford to buy everything we see. So we work with what we’ve got and usually it works out perfectly.
