Introductions

Hello World! 

My name is Rachel. Usually to get to know large groups of people I like to play either the adjective game or the animal game where we go around the circle and everyone says their name and either an adjective or an animal (respectively) that starts with the same sound (can you tell yet that I am a substitute elementary school teacher?) but since this is the internet I guess we can skip that (but for your information I would be either be Radiant Rachel or Rabbit Rachel in case you were wondering). 

Here is my deal- I am starting this blog, my first blog ever, to practice blogging and learn the ins and outs so that I can use blogs as best as I can in the future both in a personal and education sense. I would like to also introduce the case of characters who will appear throughout this blog now for your convenience. First, Matt (Mighty Matt or Mountain Lion Matt) will be mentioned often as he is my boyfriend. We met during our freshmen year of college at St. Lawrence University and have been together ever since. We live together with out kitten, Batilda (Bazaar Batilda or Baboon Batilda -- who is also known as Tilbers, Tilda, Browmers, Batty, and many other names). We have dinner often with a few of our friends, namely Lauren (Lovely Lauren or Lemur Lauren) and Cameron (Courageous Cameron or Capybera Cameron) both of whom I would consider foodies. We live about a half hour from both of our parents, who may also benefit from the focus of this blog: trying new recipes.

So, I have finally mentioned it. The purpose and focus of this blog--  to cook, write about and post the recipes of at least one new meal a week.

Matt and I, well, we do all right for ourselves when it comes to cooking meals and eating good food. I really enjoy sitting down with a cookbook or food magazine (of which I subscribe to plenty of) and either earmarking, tearing out, or copying down multiple recipes, but I do less well with remembering to actually cook the new recipes. Also, Matt and I have a tendency to convince each other that we should... well... eat out... more than we should... and thus, the goal of this blog is to expand our at home dining selections. No longer will we let mac and cheese and fajitas be the only home cooked meals at our apartment in a week
(with eating out and take out the other 5 nights...)! 

Here it is, plain and simple:

WE WILL TRY AT LEAST ONE NEW RECIPE A WEEK

there you have it. Please enjoy the (sometimes) delicious ramblings of one girl's adventure through too many cookbooks.