An Introduction

I started cooking a few years ago, and kind of enjoy finding recipes and testing them out. About 50% of the time, things just don't turn out the way you want them to. I am also finding that recipe reviews are hard to trust: someone else might LOVE the velveta and frozen broccoli casserole flavor, while others like squid with exotic spices.

I'm a bit of a foodie, or better stated as a "Dirty American foodie" - I like good food, made well, but not entirely weird and exotic. A good kobe beef chili dog, chocolate chip cookie martini with a cupcake for desert will make anyone happy.

I've been thinking about starting this blog for a while, so these first few posts have been in my head for a while. I'll start next with a recipe that my husband begs me to make. I should mention, he prefers a very plain palate with an aversion to anything with too many "organic, free range, spiced, exotic" words in the title. But he has been doing well with expanding his options and tastes and flavors.