Good Times With Food

Welcome to my blog! I had not been moved to participate in the online community to this extent until I realized that I could harness technology to share my nerdy love of gardening, cooking and canning with anyone who cares to read my posts. This summer I am attempting for the first time to grow a full-scale garden, starting everything from seed. So now you can observe, via the internet, as I regress to Little House on the Prairie-style subsistence living.

While I will probably focus on the growing aspect in the beginning, my hope is for this blog to be a little bit of everything food related - growing, cooking, eating and even storing and then eating later! Thanks largely to Barbara Kingsolver, gardening is the hottest activity to steal from your grandmother since knitting. Much of my motivation for getting so much more involved in the process of what I eat comes from concern about the environment. I hope that for myself and many others, "locavore" living will not be a passing fad but a grounded approach to sustainability that pays tribute to our agricultural heritage.

The rest of the motivation for my endeavors comes from, well, love of delicious food! I'm already daydreaming about summer and the vast quantities of fresh fruits and vegetables that I will consume. And I wouldn't be surprised if a few posts document forays to ethnic restaurants or local fast food favorites. As we know from the SNL ladies who inspired the title of this blog, nothing is more exciting than discussing food. So hang on for a wild ride!