...and all I can think about is what's for dinner

I am getting married in 24 days and all I can think about today is what's for dinner.

But that's to be expected from me. When my soon to be betrothed, Benjamin, takes on dinner for the evening he does everything shy of fluffing a pillow in an attempt to help me take a load off. And my first response is to grab the closest cook book and start flippin.

I can't help it, I love food. More specifically, I love the colors and smells, I love the choices, I love the rush of suspense when you wait for that slight change in expression on a person's face after their first bite. Will it be a yay or a nay? But really it is about the process. From beginning to end, I find it so peaceful.

So this is to be a place for me to share this obsession with cooking, but also with eating healthful, interesting, fresh, local food. There will be some meat dishes from time to time, but mostly everything will be vegetarian. Now this is not to say I don't like meat...I love meat. The smell of a perfectly grilled steak triggers much more than just my salivary glands. The only restriction I put on myself when it comes to meat is I need to know for sure that the animal's were treated humanely, without any antibiotics or hormones, pasture raised or allowed to forage. I won't go into why since I feel like most people have an inkling if not more (check out Michael Pollan if you don't), but I will say anything else grosses me out.

thank you for reading this far, and double thanks if you continue to read. keep on cooking...

nora.