The starter.

I open this blog with a dedication:

I hereby dedicate this blog to the pursuit of tasty tasty noms. I promise to avoid prepackaged foods to the best of my culinary ability. I shalt not cook beyond the means of my kitchen, time, or patience. I shall love, honor, and respect my taste buds with good wines and bad, in saltiness and sweet, with savory and bitter components both. Forever, and ever... Amen.

& a quote

"The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living"
Dione Lucas


Now on to the good stuff. 


This blog was spurned from the encouragement of another blogger out there that I know in physical reality - Lady B. I was leaving the greater Los Angeles region to move to the frozen tundras of the North... alright, not really. I was moving north but not quite to frozen wastelands. Rather to the home of some amazing culture, tons of sight seeing, and of course awesome locally grown and harvested foods. I was always a foodie at heart, upon moving out of the beloved parents house I become a foodie in practice as well. Not one of those snobbish obnoxious foodies who always seem to believe they know the *best* places to eat and refuse to eat somewhere outside their reservation zone. Rather one of those foodies who is in it for the pursuit of incredible (& might I add satisfyingly edible) food.


I moved to the Bay area and within the first two months of living here signed up to receive locally grown food stuffs on a weekly basis. The goodness of the Farms. Freshness Farms is our first endeavor in the locally grown movement. So far... so well. We could even request them NOT to send us mushrooms (one of the few foods on my Do Not Consume list.... I try I do. They taste like dead. I prefer my food not tast like dead thank you).


Let the adventure begin...