Full Disclosure...

We (and by we, I mean I) should have started this blog with a couple of caveats.

1.   I have never been good at keeping a journal, writing papers throughout the course of a semester, or "cleaning as I go."  This blog, apparently, is no different.  My posts have been to few and far between and I wonder if it's been too restricting to simply post when we try a recipe out of a cookbook and ignore the many recipes we make out of cooking magazines, other blogs, or just from our own imaginations (like last night's street tacos, a.m.a.z.i.n.g.).  Patience, friends.

2.  Food porn is harder than it looks.  A couple of the dishes I'm about to blog about have pictures of the recipe, rather than the food.  Any hints on great resources to improve my food photography/styling skills would be warmly welcomed.

3.  Finally, and this is the BIG one, there really are very few new, original ideas.  Take the premise behind this blog.

Now I will say that there are a few food blogs I look at regularly.  Just a few, because I'd rather be cooking or hanging out with friends and family or drinking coffee or online shopping or any number of other things than looking at hundreds of food blogs every day (though I'm glad you're looking at mine!). Needless to say, I named the blog and came up with the concept without giving much thought to who else might have had a similar idea...

I can tell you this - someone much cooler, and probably much taller, had the idea and her blog is a.m.a.z.i.n.g.  It's called 100 Cookbooks and you should definitely check it out.  The author's name is Heidi (of course).  She is tall and blonde and lives in San Francisco (of course).  She focuses on whole, healthy foods and takes the most beautiful pictures that have been published in all the coolest magazines (of course).  And I'm pretty sure her skin is always clear, her clothes are impeccable styled, and her apartment rivals an issue of Architectural Digest.  

So, begging her forgiveness (and yours) I'll keep on with our goal of cooking through the cookbooks on the shelf and throwing in something random from time to time, especially if it's too yummy to pass up.

xo

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Welcome to our blog!  We're not sure how it will evolve, but we are resolved to cook from each of the 87 cookbooks on the bookshelf (trust me when I say there are maybe the same number scattered about the house in boxes, tucked into cabinets, and hiding underneath piles of magazines..  what Jeremy doesn't know won't hurt him!), and we are also resolved to be ourselves in our posts - which means you'll likely be quite able to distinguish between our "voices" in each of the posts!

Not to be too sappy, but this has been a resolution of mine for some time (Amanda, Dawna and Tracy have been hearing it for YEARS) but I think I had to enter into this love thing with abandon before I could launch into this resolution with abandon.  Whatever it was, I am grateful for it all.

So - I hope that we can be a bit entertaining.  We'll likely post about coffee, life in Alaska, and anything else that tickles our fancy from time to time.  If you like it, cool.  If you don't, find someone else's blog to read ;-)

xo

~m

p.s.  look for our first "cooking" blog post soon!  In full disclosure, we started a little early out of a cookbook we got for Christmas.  Jeremy will be writing, as he tried the recipe the first time, and the second, and the third.  I tried it on our fourth try (officially the first of this year) and it still didn't work....