Excuses, Excuses

A funny thing happened around the time that I made my last post.  First, my daily green tea began inciting a queasy feeling in my stomach.  Next, the smell of Bryce cooking eggs made me want to flee the kitchen forever.  And finally, I started to wonder if my Saturday morning trips to the farmers’ market were really worth the energy.

You see where this is headed, right?  Flash forward to five months since my post, and I looked like this:

In the time it took me to generate that big ol’ belly, I didn’t feel much like cooking, much less writing about the aroma and taste of food.  I also kept busy moving into a new house, and studying for and taking PhD exams in Chapel Hill.

This is all to say: a lot has changed since August!  But now that things have settled down a bit, I’m ready to start cooking, eating, and writing all about it on the blog.  So I hope you’ll check back soon for my usual dining posts, which I’ll be supplementing with tales of first-time gardening, joining and using a CSA, and, come fall, making baby food.

For now, I’m off to raise a glass to the new and improved dinewithdanielle.  Ah, milk.