I promised you in the new year that I would blog more. Little did I know how writing this cookbook would totally take over my life. I am at the coffee shop now, waiting to get started, but wanted to take 20 minutes to quickly write up a blog post for you and get a little something off my food blogging chest.

When I research recipes, I look at every recipe I can get my hands on. I scour my cookbooks, and I read  a LOT of recipes online-from food bloggers and other recipe sites. I am looking for common threads. If I am going to make meatballs, what do most meatball recipes always include? What are the variables? What are techniques? I also look at reader comments to see what worked and didn’t work in the recipe. I think of myself as more analytical than artistic when it comes to creating recipes. Once an academic, always an academic. I am also a huge fan of Pinterest, so I am always looking on there for ideas. My point, I read a lot of recipes and I am noticing a very depressing trend:

This recipe is going to change your life.

This is the best fill-in-the-blank that you will ever have.

This recipe will rock your world.

I am here to tell you that my recipes will not change your life, they may not be the best that you will ever have, and I doubt they will rock your world.

And if they do, you need a life and you need to go out to eat more.

I will promise you that my recipe will be dependable. You can trust that the recipe will fulfill its promise to you. The timing will sync up because I time things down to the minute and have an amazing group of testers who double test me.

I will promise you that my recipe will not suck. I tried the whole make ahead breakfast sandwiches where you bake the eggs. I reheated my frozen sandwich, I bit into it, and then ran to the garbage to spit it out. I then had to brush my teeth and use mouthwash to get the foul taste out of my mouth. And this recipe promised to be best idea ever and JUST like McDonald’s. Liar. How do you live with yourself?

I will promise you that my recipe will be as easy as I can make it. I have a toddler. I am writing a cookbook with my toddler. She is usually either at my side dumping in ingredients, running around at my feet, or destroying my kitchen. Sometimes all three at once. If something is too hard, I don’t do it. I have actually pulled recipes from this book because I realized they were not easy enough to do. I want you to succeed in the kitchen. My co-writer and I have laid out meal plans that are actually realistic and we have worked hard so that when you read the book, you feel empowered, not intimidated.

Those are my promises to you. And now friends, I better get back to work!

I would love to hear from you. What has the been the biggest food blog recipe fail you encountered?

And dear lord, I hope it’s not from my blog, but if it is, let me know. I will make sure to fix the recipe!

 


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