What To Expect

Pumpkin pie with a sweet & salty pecan crust. Recipe snitched from Oh She Glows.

This is a food blog, so I suppose I should clarify what kind of food you should expect to be seeing.

Over the years I have gone from the kid who set fire to burritos in the microwave to the lady who cooks and bakes everything--or at least almost everything--from scratch, using wholesome and simple ingredients to create flavourful and fancy dishes. As a student on a budget I don't have tons of cash to throw around for food, so my meals are a feast for the eyes but easy on the wallet. It's the best of both worlds!

Also affecting what kinds of things you'll see pop up here is my diet. I've done the vegetarian thing, the vegan thing, the pescatarian thing, the gluten-free thing... I've done everything. Seriously. Nowadays, I don't place any restrictions on what kinds of foods I'll eat. While I'm generally an unusually healthy eater, I'm no stranger to sweet potato fries and nachos and salsa, so don't be surprised if you see something greasy or salty pop up here.

One thing I don't eat is cow dairy, but that's chalked up to allergies. I recently found out, however, that I can tolerate goat dairy, and so have been eating up creamy goat milk yogurt and crumbly goat cheese. I went years without eating proper cheese and yogurt, so I consider this stuff the food of the gods. They'll be popping up regularly as I experiment with them in new and exciting recipes. Or, you know, as I eat them straight-up from their containers. No shame here.

While blog writing is jolly good fun, I must whisk myself off to work, so I'll end the post here. Next up will be photos and recipes of delicious things such as nectarine-pecan breakfast bread, date squares, yorkshire pudding, thai coconut shrimp curry, and black-eyed pea gumbo. Please, do try to contain your excitement.