Write Something, Already!

Welcome to my blog. I will be your tour guide should you find a reason to not run screaming away or fall asleep from insufficient stimulation. I have a five-year-old, so I have all the stimulation I can handle, thank you very much.

Here's my idea: I love to cook and I love to feed people. Feeding people is something I feel compelled to do. If you come to my house, you will eat or drink something or I will have failed in my primary directive. SO I thought it might be fun to try to cook everything in my pristine and thus far untouched Baking with Julia cookbook and share my experiences- good and bad, lovely and horrifying- with anyone who might be interested in reading about it. I also want to share the fruits of my labor. Or should I say, baked goods.

But then I realized that I wouldn't really be baking with Julia because Julia didn't write the book or even technically create the recipes. This had me in a quandary, a word I explained to Tallulah (the stimulating five-year-old) means a situation in which you feel stuck and confused about your choices. On further exploration, my trusty Webster's New World College Dictionary (fourth edition) describes a quandary as "a state of uncertainty; perplexing situation or position; dilemma." Well there you go; I was pretty close. And for the wordsmiths out there, Roget's Thesaurus offers "dubiety" and "predicament" as synonyms. I particularly enjoy "dubiety" and will have to find a way to use that later today in some casual conversation...

In any case, welcome. On with the show. Oh, and you may encounter a number of non-food-related posts along the way, as I journey down my path to enlightenment. Ok, let me level with you, it's pretty likely there will always be some mention of comestibles, or it just wouldn't be me.

Thanks for reading. Party on...