Hello World, how have you been?

Wow... I am blogging. If someone told me a year ago (heck, even a week ago), that i would have this crazy idea to start blogging about my culinary life, I probably would of laughed at them. But sometimes even the craziest ideas lead to great things. So what is my crazy idea.

Well it all started last Friday. I was (technically still am) enrolled at the famous Culinary College, Le Cordon Bleu and had been thinking over whether or not I should in fact go to Culinary School. I know School is always a good idea, it guides you to the top of whatever career field you chose to be in. Knowing this I decided it was in fact a bad idea, and i will tell you why. I had been googleling (googling, what is the official term for that?), chef careers and seeing what people thought.  Now I am not afraid of hard work, but I was not looking forward to long days and late nights all days of the week. I don't care how much you like to cook that is going to suck the life out of anyone, and i have a baby on the way (Due July 20th, but I am hoping for the 17th as it is my father's birthday). Also, everywhere I saw a blog or posting about someone who started their culinary career always talked about 'passion'. Personally, I enjoy cooking, but I am not sure I could passionately cook for a living. It's more of a hobby.

So I had this idea. I believe right now I have the ability to cook. Since currently I am unemployed I have started cooking for the family (me and my wife are currently living with the in-laws in Arizona). So far they have liked what I have cooked. So I began having this crazy idea. Instead of following other people's recipes, why not start making my own? I rarely follow a recipe to the letter anyway, and, I could post the recipes online or start a blog... and so I did.

This blog is going to be a diary, if you like, about me and my culinary journey. I am going to use this space to post recipes I like or recipes I have done myself and want to share. But I would also like people to send my recipes they think I would like, especially from other cultures or areas of the world. Personally I believe the best way to get to know a culture is by trying their food. Because let's be honest, with all the differences we try and find with ourselves and other cultures these days, humans will always share a love for food; its in our nature, its our common ground. Food brings us together, I am sure a lot of us have been at a social gathering where there are a few people we don't know, and we have heard people or have used ourselves the subject of food and what your eating as an icebreaker.

But anyway I wont keep you long, I am better at recipes than life stories. And to be fair, that's what this blog is about, recipes and the culinary journey.

So please, read, print, take notes whatever. Just enjoy cooking and the recipes and please let me know what you think!