The Cooking Challenge: 1,000 Recipes

Julie and Julia, anyone?


I have decided to embark on my own adventure in the realm of cooking.  Staring this week, I will be cooking through a cookbook:  The Kitchen Bible--1,000 Family Recipes from Around the World.  My goal is to do this in 3 years--by April 2014.  Few things make me more excited than trying out a new spice or watching bread rise so I feel that this goal is appropriate.  This new endeavor requires that I cook things like quail eggs and rabbit.  Fortunately, we live in an area where you can actually get things like that without too much of a problem. :)  I am ridiculously excited about this adventure. Stering seem to be, too.  If we get a bit chubbier in the next little bit, please don't judge.

Everything is coming up daisies--or marigolds

Here is our urban garden.  Actually, we are just growing marigolds for our church primary class.  We love them and all, but we just don't quite trust them to remember to water their plants every day.  So, Sterling and I bring all of these plants to church every week so the kids can water their plants and see how much they have grown.  It's pretty exciting.  Maybe by Mother's Day they will have flowers?  One girl is hoping for her flower to be blue.  How do you break it to her that we just don't have control over stuff like that?  Panic attack of the week:  Luke's plant started to die.  I don't want to be the cause of a 3-year-old's heartbreak...