I Don't Think I'm Done Yet

Today I was lamenting to Todd that my blog is dead; it's been almost two months since my last post, and the time has flown by without an impulse on my part to write about any of the cooking or baking I've done. (It's too bad, too, because I have baked some yummy things from Once Upon a Tart and come up with some recipes that August really liked.)

I told him the only time I feel like posting is when I have a passionate reaction to some product I've tried: the Cascadian Farms broccoli florets (not the cuts) that are the perfect degree of tenderness for August without being too mushy for me, the loaf of pecan-raisin bread I picked up on impulse from Natural, almost everything from Bonelle pastry shop near my apartment. I wanted to write to complain that Trader Joe's individually quick-frozen baby spinach was literally 50 percent spinach stems; I decided that picking out the actual leaves was faster. The vinho verde I picked up from the Trader Joe's wine shop, however, introduced me to a whole new school of summery wines (although I did NOT like the single vinho verde offered by Fresh Direct). I've become more of a shopper than a cook, and when I do cook it's often something I've made before.

He told me to go ahead and do it; the whole point of writing your own blog is making it whatever you want it to be. So here it is. The posts may seem kind of mundane sometimes, but I hope there'll be a useful tip every once in a while. And maybe my family will still manage to get a little picture of what's going on in my life (and what the baby's up to).