sketters

so one of my hopes for this blog is to post frequently on things that I cook/create in my kitchen.  Since becoming a SAHM I have discovered that one of my interests is cooking.  I really like taking a recipe and either trying to follow it step by step or changing it to my liking.  Usually the contents of my kitchen determine which task is at hand.

So tonight for dinner, we had 'sketters'.  The rest of you know this as spaghetti.  I really like my sketters recipe.  I soften onions and garlic in butter and olive oil.  Then add ground beef/turkey and salt, pepper, chili powder, dried seasonings and cook until no longer pink.  Then, I simply add a jar of sauce.  You may chastise me for using jarred sauce, but the onions and garlic in the beginning really make a difference in taste.  And, once the sauce is bubbling away, I usually prepare a simple salad, cook some whole wheat...no white flour in this house....noodles, and voila, a wonderful sketters dinner!

It's defintiely a favorite dinner in this house...not only for my husband who could eat all of it himself, but for me too  because it takes exactly two pots to make.  I love that!  And, it's simple...I love simplicity...I am always looking for ways to simplify my life...and this dinner gives me a little ray of the simple life I envision for myself.  And, my daughter likes it too....which is saying a lot right now since her favorite thing to eat is cheese.

adjustment

I was born and raised in Atlanta.  Now I live in Connecticut.  And, let me tell you...it is verrryyyy different.  When we first moved here I had to listen really hard when people talked to me because they talked too fast and I couldnt understand what they were saying.  I felt like a fool.  I am a college educated, with a graduate degree, modern american woman I couldnt understand what store clerks were saying when they asked for my signature.  Yeah...it was an adjustment.

That wasnt the only one either.  There are no streetlights on the highways.  So when youre driving in a snowstorm down the highway at 9 at night, dont count on the streetlights to provide any kind of guidance...you are better off following the lines in the snow left by previous travelers.  And, if you are looking for a good mexican restaurant where you might find queso on a friday night, along side a frozen margarita, good luck.  There is no such thing 'round these parts.

I figure my experience isnt that unique...people relocate all of the time.  But, for me the past two years have taught me a lot about what I thought I knew about life...and about my tendencies to expect certain things.  Now, my understanding of life was bound to be different this year, having a daughter and all, but I definitely wasnt expecting to have said daughter while I was in the midst of learning to live in the northeast.  So, it's definitely been a period of adjustment...not only to living in a new place, but to living in a new phase of my life....being a mama.

and...here we go

This is my first post on this blog.  I have another blog for my family to keep up with what happens...pictures, events, whatnot, but this site here is for me and my brain only....well, I guess for you too if you're reading.  I want a place to share thoughts, pictures (artsy pictures), food, pretty much everything else I don't want to put on our family's blog.  Hopefully one day, I will be organized on this here website and there might even be different pages.

I got inspired first by all of the blogs I read and then by my college roommate...she started a few blogs and I thought that I could would really enjoy having a space to write and share as well.

Here's to whatever may come about on this blog...enjoy what you find!