It’s funny how things work out.<\/p>\n
I started this blog last week, hoping that I would stumble upon something worth reading and writing about without causing too much controversy or being too boring.\u00a0 I love reading blogs and I love writing and I wanted to be part of the “blogosphere”.\u00a0 But I had no real direction.<\/p>\n
So…last night my sister, my Man and myself had settled down to watch Iron Chef America on the Food Network<\/a>, as we do every week.\u00a0 Pim<\/a> was one of the judges for Battle Tomato (more about that later, possibly) to which I commented “I want to be a food blogger!”\u00a0 My sister, always good for encouraging me in these foolish ventures, chimed in “You want to be Alex<\/a>.”\u00a0 Yes, yes I do.\u00a0 So, with all due respect to Alex, who I have known for longer than either of us should confess to, and Pim, who does this for a living, here I am.<\/p>\n It should have occurred to me sooner.\u00a0 For months I’ve been watching Food Network like its my job, looking up recipes, buying cookbooks, reading food blogs, trying to be more “flexitarian<\/a>” (more about that later) and complaining about the food in my household.\u00a0 I am so excited about this project.<\/p>\n So, to start this off right, I am reminded of what my 9th grade history teacher always used to say:<\/p>\n “If you don’t eat, you die.”<\/strong><\/p>\n