Behind the Scenes

I have five recipes posted now, and it seems like a good time to say a few things about my cooking/blogging style.

We eat a lot of chicken, not because I think it's most awesome thing ever, but because it's cheap, and we are (I'll admit it) poor. I do really like chicken, but the cheapness factor influences a lot. 

For the same reason I use margarine instead of butter. Butter generally works better in baking, so if you have it, use it.

After I make the recipes I plan on posting, I ask Daniel "Is this blog worthy?" He has never said no, but like I said last post, he is easy to please.

I don't believe in just posting a recipe. I want you to get a taste of my personality when you read my recipes, so I try to use my writing skills as well as my cooking ones.

We are hoping to move fairly soon, and the kitchen will be a major determining factor in the place I choose.

The kitchen is really important to me because right now I have a teeny tiny kitchen. (There is a picture at the end of the post).

My baby "helps" me cook. I stick her in her sling while I'm doing things, unless there is a knife or heat involved, in which case I stick her in the swing, bumbo, or bouncy chair in a place she can watch me.

I'm better at making up main dish recipes than desserts, but I wish it was the other way around. I'm working on that.

There are parenthesis around Chinese and Mexican on my labels because my food is not authentic and I don't want people to think I am claiming that it is.

I try to blog more than you think, but inevitably Juliet gets fussy at those exact times. I figure she just doesn't want food network to sweep me making me spend less time with her. Ha.

I have several recipes I am posting this week, so watch for them.

Yeah, that is my WHOLE kitchen.