Food!

Hello, my name is Sarah, and I love food! I love to eat it. I love to read about it. I love to think about it. I love to talk about it. In fact, that last one is the reason I started this blog. My husband is getting tired of me always talking about food, but I need some way to get my thoughts out so they don't keep bouncing around in my head. I suppose you could say food is my passion.

It's important to me to feed my family healthy food. It seems everyone has a different idea of healthy eating, and they all have research to back up what they say. This makes it very confusing. Some people say the primal lifestyle is healthiest. The government has the My Pyramid program. Others say vegetarian/vegan is the way to go. I'm still working out what my idea is of healthy eating. The more I read, the more it seems to change! I'll be sharing my current thoughts in another post.

I enjoy trying new recipes. It's always exciting to find one that all of us like, but it's also disappointing to find one that doesn't work. My husband and I were talking a few weeks ago and realized that in the past 6 years, there has only been one meal that was completely inedible. I'd say that's a pretty good record. I'm sure it's also really lucky! I think I've gotten a lot more adventurous over the years, although I still tend to follow recipes exactly as written instead of improvising. Hopefully that will start to change. I already have a few recipes I'm thinking of changing.

I hope to use this blog to keep track of (and share) recipes, both new and old favorites. It seems like when I think of something we had that I want to make again, I can never remember where the recipe is (unless it's something we make fairly often). I have a fair number of cookbooks, as well as a few notebooks full of printed recipes, and stacks of other recipes that I want to try but never seem to find the time. Does this happen to anyone else?

I also want to use this blog to discuss thoughts and ideas about food. Hopefully I will have a few readers and they will share their thoughts and ideas, too! When I read other blogs, I enjoy reading the comments to see what other people have to say. Sometimes they have really good suggestions.

I think that's enough of an introduction to the blog, so bye for now!