The folks over at Super Cook have devised a little program to help you figure out what you can cook with the ingredients that are on hand. You simply type in the ingredients that you have in the search box, and a slew of recipes will come up on the right. It will also ask if you have other items on hand that you might have not entered; therefore widening you recipe pool.
I've been playing around with different edibles and found a surprising number of things that you can make with only, say...ground beef, mustard, and ketchup packets. I love the fact that it asked me if I had blackberries. Obviously I don't have blackberries if I cooking with ketchup and mustard packets! Anyway, give it a whirl and let me know what you think about it!
Dear Bleaders,
Today was an especially sad day in Kersten Kolache Land. Here's the skinny:
I was chatting it up with my mother and she suddenly gets this tentative, hesitant tone in her voice.
Ma: "Hey, sweetie. Everything goin' okay there at the house..?"
Me: "Um, yea. Why?"
Ma: "Are you still cooking for that blog thing?"
Me: "Yea, I just getting back on the wagon. February was just sort of a tough month. Why?"
Ma: "Well...that picture you put up of the kitchen, and I was just wondering...um...is it really that messy?
Me: "Really, Ma? You think that I would let my kitchen get that bad?"
Ma: *Apologetic* "Well, no, I mean, I just, it seems like you were having a tough time and I didn't think you had yellow counter tops any way. I just saw that and I was just not sure. I'm glad everything's alright.
Me: ...
Fail #2:
I would like to start by giving a salute to all of you who are already followers. Thank you for your support. Also, a special thanks to all those who are out there Tweeting, Facebooking and Stumbling my story to the masses. (I celebrate every with a squee and run all euphoric about the house when a new person joins.)
Like you, I am trying to get the word out about generally awesome my blog is. However, there are some haters. I got this lovely diddy from a dude from my very own hometown of Houston.
Consequently, I found a song about this very guy! What a lucky rabbit I am!
I have also been submitting blogrolls with marginal success. Today, however, I was summarily rejected from a cooking blogroll because it was stated that my blog, "was not about cooking." I was completely shattered of course, because I would like to think 95% of my blog is about cooking. I cried a little and vowed to chronicle more of my actual cooking.
Until I can get up to that magical 101% of my blog being devoted to listing out a recipe with explicit directions on how to prepare it in a dry, regimented manner, please continue to use social networking to tell my tale. I'm counting on you to get the message out there and prove that indeed, more people have read my blog than that guy's shirt. Namaste! Good karma be with you.
You know what is hard about being a food blogger? Competing with freaking chefs with their fancy recipes and their professionally photographed cakes, turkeys, aspic and what-have-you! My blog looks ghetto in comparison. Are there any professional photographers or graduatestudents who would like to build a portfolio off my baking debacles? There is poorly executed broke food in it for ya...
I started blogging about food because I like food, I like experiencing food. Not only the tastes, but the smells, appearance, and texture. I also starting because I love writing. Call me nerdy, go ahead. I bird watch, too. Want to make something out of it?!
I started this blog mainly for me. On a whim, I clicked "View the Next Blog" just to see what others are writing about. Now most of my "next blogs" are other foodies, typing away about their perfect recipe or how to decorate 5 dozen sugar cookies so each one is unique. Yea, I'm not that kind of foodie or blogger. However, viewing these blogs gives me a horrible sense of inadequacy. Not only because the mother of 6 in the next blog makes fondant covered cakes with exquisite detail between breast feedings, but because it appears she has a team of stylist designing her blog and taking photographs at the proper aperture and angle.
Perhaps my blog fills a niche. I am neither a great cook, nor a great satirist, though I desire to be. What brought you to my blog and what keeps you here? I'm dying to know. "Will Cook for Comments"
