little victory

When it comes to being a domestic housewife that are a lot of things I come up short on. Most of them are in the kitchen. I keep waiting for the day that the magic cooking wand is waved and I am a kitchen goddess. I've created my fair share of excuses along the way (none of which included, "well my my mom was a kitchen failure," nope she fed me well). First of all I was a student living on my own and nobody to impress and only myself to feed, I survived. Then I was a newly wed & inherited all sorts of kitchen tools, still nothing. Then I was staying at home with Sadie, surely the delicious meal planning would begin and sweet smells would be lofting from my kitchen, nope. It's been a good 5 years of me trying to cook and even bake and still not found my groove. The good news is I have a lot of years ahead of me to work on it.

You like the apron? Don't worry I didn't sew it my crafty sil Rhonda made it. Yep, she is amazing.

There is so many things I have yet to do in my own kitchen: bake bread, make jam, can anything and the list goes on. One thing I have tried to do many times & failed miserably is make good chocolate chip cookies, you know the ones you crave. UNTIL today my streak ended. I don't know what I did differently but they worked I got yet another new recipe from bakerella. I'm not sure what made the difference this time. I just got more and more giddy as I pulled out yet another perfect batch from the oven. Either way I am pretty much beside myself waiting for Ryan to come home and see what I made. He has told me to give up on making them previously. So if you're in the neighborhood please stop by I will gladly invite you in for cookies and milk. mmmm
I know to some of you this sounds ridiculous, but whatever go back to your crafty craft room and your perfect Martha Stewart kitchen and do your thing. I'll probably just be sitting here dunking cookies and milk.

On the topic of delicious food. My friend Carla has an amazing catering business. I can't lie I have never actually eaten her amazing food, but I have heard many times how fabulous she is at this fine art. She now offers classes too, I'm thinking I need to sign myself up. If it goes good I'm pretty sure Ryan will sign me up again and again (remember I have a long ways to go). I would love to go to her class she is a HOOT to be around she is so full of energy and I'm sure I would walk away a better person if not a better cook. Right now she has a giveaway for a FREE cooking class, so go check it out.