Random Thoughts

So, I hope that you guys are actually reading this, and have noticed the changes. I spoke to FP yesterday, and I go back to work on Monday. I’m told that I will be wiped out by Tuesday. Works for me: I need structure!

With a return to work, my time to cook will obviously be curtailed. I’ve been stockpiling recipes and pictures, and have realized that I probably won’t be doing a “cookbook” like my mom did. That what I am doing is recording a year in my kitchen, hence the change in the tag line.

I realize that I spend a lot of time thinking about food. Part of that is a no-brainer. Duh, I’m diabetic. Talking to a friend, I realize that my approach to food is different. Food = Love in our family, and I’ve done my level best to love y’all to death! That’s right, come into my gingerbread house, Wendy. I am trying to fatten you up, dear. But I am also trying to edumacate you, as Homer would say.

Diabetes is a reality each of you needs to look at. Two grandparents and a mom means that the odds are greater you will find yourself with some sort of medical complication. Add in the Cholesterol Curse and Heart Disease and frankly you guys aren’t much better off than me or your father. But you can certainly be smarter and head off the worst of it.

I don’t go out to eat as much as I did because food is a series of land mines. What’s in this? What will it do to my sugars? Yeah, I drive through McDonald’s way too much, but at least I know what’s in it (more or less). I know how my body will react (badly). But I also try to do more things at home. I got real macho one year and even got a tortilla press and made my own tortillas - which, by the way, are just as bad as white bread, carbwise.

I have picked up skills and techniques and learned, learned, learned. At Christmas Cook’s Illustrated sent me an offer I couldn’t refuse: half off a membership to their incredibly awesome website. I discovered the Awesome Power of RSS last year, and have so many cooking and food blogs syndicated that I am actually breaking them out by category, because I am just Super Geeky that way.

BTW, you should be syndicating this site, so that when I update you will be automatically notified. I’ve been using Google Reader and Bloglines, plus I’ve been watching my site in Thunderbird. Yesterday I switched to FeedDemon on Lifehacker’s recommendation. I’m still getting used to it, but it looks pretty good. If interested, lemme know and I will hook you up, cuz I’m just awesome that way.

I have a lot of plans for this site. It’s tough being so far away from each of you. I was almost apologizing to a friend for my, er, obsession with food and all yummy food related topics with a “well, food meant love in my family”.

He said “There are worse ways to show love than food.”

Made me feel better, because it’s true.

xoxox

mom