and blogging, after all this time.
Preoccupied and busy, I've been quite for a bit. Not that my husband minds that much. Me being quiet, that is.
As far as the blog goes, regularly scheduled programming will return soon. A fierce winter cold/sinus infection isn't making me the most attractive cook right now. (Hubby would rather eat things I didn't touch. Go figure
When my
sniffling and coughing eases a bit, I'll be back to cooking--and blogging.
Even though I'm not cooking much right now, that doesn't mean that I'm not thinking about food. I just started reading Don't Try This At Home : Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs by Kimberly Witherspoon yesterday. Filled with short writings from some of the worlds greatest chefs, this book recounts their worst kitchen mishaps and blunders. And for the often cooking-challenged such as myself, it's definitely a self-esteem lifter. Mistakes can be humbling as well as humiliating. These chefs, though, learned from their mistakes and went on to create wonderful dishes.
And isn't that what we all strive to do? Challenge ourselves and continually learn from our successes as well as our failures. Trying and trying no matter what happens. That can be difficult for even the best of us. I know that for myself at least it is often near impossible to continue working at something after a spectacular failure. But life continues on, with or without us. Whether or not we pick up our aprons and dust them off is up to us.
And now, stepping down from my kitchen stepstool, I return to my sniffling.
P.S. In case you were wondering, my test results came back fine. It's been a year now since I was first diagnosed with breast cancer. A year full of struggles and love. I definitely have a lot to be grateful for. And now knowing that my cancer hasn't returned? That's the best Christmas present ever.
Preoccupied and busy, I've been quite for a bit. Not that my husband minds that much. Me being quiet, that is.
As far as the blog goes, regularly scheduled programming will return soon. A fierce winter cold/sinus infection isn't making me the most attractive cook right now. (Hubby would rather eat things I didn't touch. Go figure
When my
sniffling and coughing eases a bit, I'll be back to cooking--and blogging.Advertisement:
Even though I'm not cooking much right now, that doesn't mean that I'm not thinking about food. I just started reading Don't Try This At Home : Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs by Kimberly Witherspoon yesterday. Filled with short writings from some of the worlds greatest chefs, this book recounts their worst kitchen mishaps and blunders. And for the often cooking-challenged such as myself, it's definitely a self-esteem lifter. Mistakes can be humbling as well as humiliating. These chefs, though, learned from their mistakes and went on to create wonderful dishes.
And isn't that what we all strive to do? Challenge ourselves and continually learn from our successes as well as our failures. Trying and trying no matter what happens. That can be difficult for even the best of us. I know that for myself at least it is often near impossible to continue working at something after a spectacular failure. But life continues on, with or without us. Whether or not we pick up our aprons and dust them off is up to us.
And now, stepping down from my kitchen stepstool, I return to my sniffling.
P.S. In case you were wondering, my test results came back fine. It's been a year now since I was first diagnosed with breast cancer. A year full of struggles and love. I definitely have a lot to be grateful for. And now knowing that my cancer hasn't returned? That's the best Christmas present ever.