It is with a great pride that I start blogging again. This time, however, I do promise to be more faithful to my work and to my readers-- who probably consist of my mom, my boyfriend and my Dungeons and Dragons campaign party and even then, I'm probably being generous.
This will contain the adventures and my perils starting cooking for the first time, along with recipes, photos and tips. I know, there are a million cooking blogs out there. What makes mine any different?
For starters, I'm younger. Not saying that the other bloggers are ancient, but I don't have kids, a mortgage or student loans (...yet). I'm 19, and I'm a English nerd who reads too much and holds her boyfriend's kitchen hostage because all my dorm has is a microwave, ancient mini-fridge and an illegal hot pot.
Again, I can see that I'm not convincing anybody. I'm sure out of the millions of cooking blogs, there are thousands dealing with college students that cook. Perhaps some of them run semi-professional businesses out of their rooms. (I can see it now. "Today guys, we're going to show you to make microwaved fondant using powdered coffee creamer, Easy Mac and Ramen Noodles!")
But-- have you ever read a cooking blog dealing with the trials and tribulations of a beginning cook who can't do fractions, only has one metal 9x13 pan to her name, and has an obsession with Harry Potter, cupcakes and Hello Kitty? I thought not.
Therefore, any foray into the cooking world will be recorded here, with extremely shoddy cell phone quality pictures. Hopefully I can wrangle a camera that has more than 2.0 megapixels sometime soon.
Lastly, where did the moosecookies come from? Ah well, it's been a saying I've had for ages which has a bit of double meaning. For starters, I love cookies and think moose (which is the plural of moose) are interesting creatures, if not having a proclivity to be ridden by Sarah Palin. But the ultimate reason for its depth of meaning for me is that its a phrase that's always gotten my writers block unstuck. Can't think of how to word something? Type moosecookies a few times. Its easy because of the double letters and eventually you'll figure out something creative to write outside the phrase.
I cannot conceal from you, dear readers, that I am excited for this new project. My creative writing professor will be proud. I leave you with a quote, which is hopefully how I end every post.
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table, close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."
- Anne Lamott
Also, if you're interested in my cooking profile, I've got a username on AllRecipes which is moosecookies.
-A
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