Last minute substitution

I haven't really done anything fun with my cooking this week yet. Made the kids chicken noodle soup (Campbell's) with green beans for dinner. I did a sneaky thing though. We were out of milk and I wanted to make drop biscuits to go with the soup. Box of dried milk powder I use for some of my bread machine recipes saved the day! The kids haven't said anything about it and I doubt they'd even notice. We couldn't have grilled cheese because I was out of sandwich bread too. I sense a trip to the grocery store in my future!
Watch out for a coming post on experimenting with Oreo truffle balls. I'm going to attempt them with candy cane oreos this year.....

So I was wandering around the blogging world tonight and realized I'd not been here in months. Bad me, I know. I'm sure I could make excuses saying life has been busy, work hectic, kids a handful, whatever. But it really was just laziness.
I've also realized something. I love food. I don't even have to eat it. Just cooking it, baking it, or grilling it makes me happy. Having people tell me what I made was yummy makes me smile. I watch Food TV. I'll discuss recipes forever. I ENJOY getting new gadgets and appliances for Christmas, my birthday, and Mother's Day. I love cookbooks and food magazines. There are so many things I want to try. I want to roast a pig in a ground oven. I want to bake bread on my bbq grill. I want to grow more of my own food here at home.
So in the next few weeks I'm going to come up with a game plan for this coming year. I'll be experimenting in my kitchen and will post stories about my adventures here in my blog. I will also learn how to put pictures in and upload those. That will be the focus of my blog for 2010!