The new year seems to be as good a time as any to revive this blog. Our summer of ‘where will we plan to move this week?’ is past us, as is the moving itself and settling in, as are the holidays and a wedding. We are enjoying a quiet January, and Molly and I are feeling nicely settled into our stay-at-home routine, which happily involves more time for cooking for me. It doesn’t include much computer time – at ALL – as our computer is in our bedroom which it turns out has many dangerous, toxic and troublesome things for a toddler to get into. I can read about one sentence on email before the inevitable ‘Molly! No touch!’ interrupts my chain of thought.
While I am aiming to be better on the frequency of reporting new, good recipes, I can’t promise the entries will be long or detailed. I am gradually accepting that this stage of my life is one that doesn’t provide a lot of time for constructing helpful, descriptive, beautiful prose. But there is something almost nice about that – being too busy experiencing life in all it’s joys and messes, seeing everything anew from a toddler’s eyes, to sit down and write about it! That’s not such a bad excuse, after all.
I hope to write more about my favorite soups, some of which I haven’t included here yet, or new ones I’ve found. We cook a LOT of soup in the winter. I am also trying to make more salad for dinner, and have a few new ‘recipes’ I’ve come up with that I’ll try to get typed up. And every now and then if there’s some genius idea for getting good food into my picky eater (more because she’s too busy to eat than because she’s got preferences or aversions), I’ll share that too.
If anyone is still out there reading…it is nice to be back. Hoping to hear from you!
Hi, your blog is great and I heard your cooking is even better! i am courtney charest’s sister-in-law and she told me to check your blog because i have a blog too. (and a baby!) looking forward to following you!