eating elephants June 17, 2008

welcome to my new food blog!

the first post is always overwhelming. i’ve been blogging for well over 3 years now, but starting a new blog is so daunting. there’s so much to say, but i’m just going to start with this one tiny bite. (that is how you eat an elephant, afterall. one bite at a time. but please don’t eat the elephants, it’s just an expression).

through this blog, i hope to record small snippets of our family’s food life, share inspirational links to articles, photos, podcasts, recipes and books that pertain to good eating and good living. i also found my personal blog starting to become more of a food blog. i know that a lot of my readers may not be as interested to see what i ate for dinner, (who wouldn’t find that tantalizing? ), so i felt like a new blog dedicated to food was the way to go!

a little about me: i am a full time mama to 3 wild monkey children and wife to a very hard working man, who looks a bit like Woody from Toy Story. which is totally hot, right?

i spend my days doing mommy and wifely things in our new home in Iowa, while squeezing in all the time that I can for photography, reading, blogging, cooking and baking. in the past few months, i’ve become very interested in Vegetarian cooking, which is so foreign to this meat & potatoes girl, but i love it.

although, i would never presume to call myself a Vegetarian at this point. i am still working out my feelings on this subject, but i just wanted to give you a heads up, since most of my food talk will not involve meat. and while i do enjoy reading about healthy living and cooking, i am not at all claiming to be an expert in this area. i have a STRONG affinity for all things sweet and carb centered, i miss bacon terribly, i love to bake, i dread exercise, i forget to take my vitamins, i am frustratingly overweight, and i have been known to make a lovely healthy meal for my children while sneaking bites of Pillsbury cookie dough from the refrigerator. (it has been almost a year since i’ve done that though, so maybe that is a part of my naughty youth)

but i’m all about doing SOMETHING, rather than nothing, in the hopes that all of those little somethings will add up to a surprisingly large something. again, it’s all about small bites here.

so, i’ll put this out there, and future posts are bound to come more easily, i hope.

welcome, welcome!