Beginnings

Tonight I gave up Facebook for 30 days, and 5 minutes later this blog was born. A little history: I am 26 years old, and semi-newly married. I am Canadian and I am learning to cook. I live on the west coast, and find living a balanced lifestyle very challenging, with 24 hour a day access to easy fast food, and an existance that is constantly passing me by at the speed of light. One of my favourite things to do is enjoy a meal. With my husband, with family & friends, or just solo. My title this past year has become "the adventurous cook". This is the gentle way of saying that I can't follow a recipe to save my life, and everyime I even look one up I change the ingredients before I even begin. I am completely accident prone, and live in a small apartment with a tiny kitchen and no dishwasher. This is my beginning.

My goal here is to learn to cook, properly. Not just to make delicious (read: edible) dishes, but to figure out what "folding" means, what a pine nut is, and to learn to use my shiny electric mixer. In true Canuck fashion, I've decided to start with Jean Pare's Company's Coming franchise, the first cookbook I came to know and love, and to date one of Canada's top selling series'. I've chosen "The Rookie Cook" as it seems appropriate. Over the next 30 days, I plan to eat out as little as possible, and cook as much as I can stand. What follows are my culinary exploits, uncensored, as I learn to become "The Reluctant Gourmet".


**EDIT**
After reading through some of the entree recipes in The Rookie Cook, I have decided to choose a different cookbook (note to self: reading through cookbook prior to blog post would be helpful). So tomorrow I will annouce which cook book I've selected. I am not going to start Rookie, I'm going straight to Pro.