Sharing my cooking

I have been kicking around the idea of starting a food blog for about some time now. I love cooking, reading food blogs is entertaining to me, I get excited when I buy fresh produce, and worst of all, I have always enjoyed eating. I grew up with saturday and sunday afternoons spent around the table and today I believe a happy get together with friends and family has to involve food.
I was really not so interested in cooking while growing up. In fact, I was a bit of a tom-boy kinda girl that loved going camping, hiking with her friends, and could eat dirt for dinner that I wouldn't care. But one way or another, when I look back today, I almost always ate home made food. Even for those camping trips. We would buy potatoes and eggs on the local market, cut the potatoes in half, make a little hole in the middle and put the raw eggs in it, close the potatoes back with aluminum paper and roast them on the fire. They were simple, delicious, nutritious, healthy, and home-made. And that seems to be exactly how I like to cook today. I get lost and bored with complicated recipes and easily loose the patience if I need to mix or knead or refrigerate things for too long. I like to use the same philosophy on my cooking as I was taught on those advertising 101 classes I took in Art School - KISS: "Keep It Simple and Stupid" (or is it "Keep It Simple, Stupid!"?). Anyway, I never became that good at advertising (I'm an awful BSer!) but might let my old professor know how his theory applies great into my cooking. I'm sure he'll be proud!

I don't think of myself as a great cook. In fact, I think I'm still far from it, but I'd love to be as great of a cook as my mom always was. I admire her dedication to the kitchen and her passion for cooking, but most importantly, I truly admire her spontaneity, sense of improvising, and confidence that she has when she is in the kitchen.
This blog will be more of a personal journal for me. A gathering of recipes I like, notes and comments of things that I tried and the results. It's not a resource for original recipes, since aside from one or two dishes, I never invented anything. But I do improvise, modify, and experiment enough to keep things interesting, I hope.