This is my first attempt at a blog so please bear with me. This first post will hopefully give you a little bit of a background on how the blog came to be, what I hope to talk about on here and a little information on me in general.
Who I Am and Why I am Doing This:
I’m a 26 year old attorney living in Richmond, Virginia with my dog Ernie. Much to Ernie’s chagrin, I refuse to feed him any people food and therefore I’m stuck making meals for one. When feeding myself I prefer practicality and efficiency and therefore often resort to eating basic, boring, minimal ingredient meals. It is usually not worth the effort for me to plan ahead for an interesting meal, shop for special ingredients (since my fridge is pretty bare), spend time cooking and cleaning up after cooking, and then be forced to eat the same leftovers for a week.
Despite my lack of regular cooking adventures, I still consider myself to be a foodie. I love trying new restaurants and I'm always looking up recipes online. I even keep a large stack of what my friend’s lovingly refer to as “food porn” (it’s really just Food + Wine Magazine) on my coffee table.
I am an attorney by day and for the last six months I have eaten three meals a day at my desk while my firm works on a huge project. Thankfully, in December of 2010 the project slowed down for a little while and we all had a chance to breathe and return to our regularly scheduled lives. Since I had already done all my holiday shopping, I took the opportunity to get home early and relax with my dog. That got old pretty quickly though and I began to look for ways to stay occupied.
One of my favorite things to do around the holidays is bake massive quantities of cookies. However, living alone with no family for 100-miles, it seemed pretty pointless to bake holiday cookies. Despite this, one snowy day I decided to entertain myself by baking. In one day I made about six dozen cookies in four varieties.
Since I have been watching what I eat, I certainly did not want all those yummy cookies staring me down at home. I decided to take a batch to work to share. I sent out an e-mail to the other attorneys and some of the staff on my team inviting them to my office to partake in the holiday treats. You would have thought I said I had a million dollars on my desk for the taking. People flocked to my office all day and enjoyed the cookies. One of the partners asked what cookies I was bringing the next day and an idea was born.
From that day on, I brought a different cookie to the office each day. At first it was easy enough because I had a backlog of cookies that I had already baked. Once I was through with those I started on new recipes. When I finally called it quits at Christmas everyone was a bit disappointed.
It wasn’t long into the New Year before some of the partners began asking about my baking. One partner came to my office for no other purpose than to ask what my New Year’s resolution was. When I said I didn’t have one, he not so subtly indicated that baking for the office on a regular basis would be a good one. (For those of you that aren’t new attorneys in a terrible economy with soul-crushing debt lingering over your head, you might not appreciate how rare it is to even be spoken to by a partner, let alone how important it is to keep the people who sign your paycheck happy. Needless to say, when a partner says jump, you should already be airborne.) Keeping the partners coming to my office and on a perpetual sugar high seemed like a great career move and honestly it sounded like a fun new hobby. I decided to make my 2011 New Year’s resolution to cook and bake more. Ideally, I aim to try a new recipe every two week and bring something to the office at least once a month. I plan to chronicle my adventures in the kitchen (successful and otherwise) on this blog.
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