What exactly am I doing? (Otherwise known as, the first post)

In 2002, Julie Powell set out to cook all 536 recipes in a year from Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle.  It seems like a daunting task and by the looks of the motion picture, Julie and Julia, it was.

I never read the book.  I saw the movie and enjoyed Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, and of course Stanley Tucci, but it by no means moved me or inspired me...until now.

I love food.  I love cooking it and eating it and sharing it and creating it.  But who doesn’t?

Two years ago, my mother (and the best chef/cook/caterer I know) self-published her first cookbook.  She’s compiled all the recipes she has used over the years of being chef at the Crow Timber Frame Barn in Baltimore, Ohio.

Do you see where I’m going with this?  I’ve decided, without a timeline or agenda, to cook every recipe out of my mother’s cookbook and blog about it.

I haven’t even counted the number of recipes.  But here I go anyway and I'm stoked about it.

My mom and I at The Coug in Pullman, Wash.  April 2008.