Food Journal

This is my personal food journal. Below you will find my weekly journal where I will share my thoughts, feelings, and experiences when it comes to food. Fair warning, my mind is random and chaotic and changes on a dime. So if you want clarity just feel free to ask.

I suck at this! While I know these things will just take time to get into the swing of things, honestly it mostly comes down to I have been lazy when it comes to remembering to post to this journal.

I recently made a decision for myself and not without difficulty. After 12 years of trying and trying to make Graphic Design work, I have decided to call and end to it. I am 38 years old and cant keep playing this what if card forever. After being thrown into diagnosed depression at my current job and having a lot of time every day to think about it everyday, I have come to the conclusion that even if my goal of becoming an in-house graphic designer I would just feel the same as I have every day in my current job. You may be asking yourself “Isn’t this supposed to be a food journal, what does this have anything to do with cooking and food?” You aren’t wrong, so here’s the point. I have decided to double down and make this website my new dream! So good to news to you reader, I will be more involved in this website and wont stop even after I make this website everything I want it to be!

Phew… this was a lot! You’re playing world smallest violin im guessing, right? 

I took a trip down memory lane a couple weeks ago! remember that trip that I was mentioning going to my parents? well, I wanted to make a crab dip for that event and I suddenly remembered that I had a recipe from years and years ago. I asked my mom if she still had that recipe and she said yes! When I read it I was blown away by the number of recipes I had saved (most of which were never cooked). It was still a shock to me that I had the same drive for cooking back in 2007. That crab dip will be coming when I feel like I have worked out the flaws in the recipe.

Switching gears here, I wanted to touch on one last topic before I went to bed for the night. A few nights ago my wife and I were dicussing a Tres Leches cake I wanted to make for my brother’s birthday dinner. I wanted to make a few changes to the boxes instructions allong with some substitutions. Well after some debate my wife made a fair point. She pointed out that if we were making these changes we should also make a blog post where we experiment with different changes to see if they actually made a difference. You will just have to read the article when it comes out to see the results! The take away I got from all of this is, don’t be afraid to ask questions. Just because the internet and supposed “experts” say something is true doesn’t mean you should just blindly accept it as the truth. Explore, exeriment, and don’t be afraid to fail. I ended up with 4 box cakes that I barely touched before they had to be thrown out, but I had a blast discovering something for myself! Lesson learned!