So it's a funny thing when you decide to quit cooking professionally, I cook more at home now that I'm not doing it all day long. It used to be that I would get home from a long shift at work and I wouldn't even want to look at my kitchen, let alone eat or cook anything in it. So now that I'm actually doing more cooking at home, I find I actually have to do more grocery shopping then usual, sometimes making double or triple batches of things so I can freeze some so on those days were I don't have a lot of time or too tired to cook, I can just pull things like my pulled pork, chili, or stew right out.

So with doing more cooking at home, I've been going through my recipes and cookbooks to find different things to cook. One thing that's really great to find different kinds of foods to try is pintrest. Pintrest is an evil thing, I spend a lot of time on it, either looking at the different recipes people have put online, or spending an infinite amount of time on the Geek threads, gotta say, love the amount of geekery on pintrest. My cousin had never heard of it, so one weekend while I was up visiting, I showed her a few things on pintrest, including how many Harry Potter things are on there. Next thing you know I'm getting a text from her saying she's skipping studying that night to go on pintrest, for hours. Got in a bit of trouble for that one.

Another thing that's great for recipes and such, are murder mystery books. Believe it or not there are a tonne of murder mysteries with recipes. A few of my favorites are Joanne Fluke, Jessica Beck, Jessica Conant-Park, and Avery Aames. They each have a great series of books with the main characters always getting involved with murders one way or another, the recipes are pretty fun, there's donuts, cookies, cakes, mains, etc. I would definitely suggest trying out one of these authors if you like humorous mysteries.

So the posts from now on I'm going to try to post recipes that I'm trying out or things that I just really like and want to share.