goals

Not Really Resolutions

~ mary_m ~ 2 Comments

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, per se, but I’m a big fan of reflection and of well-chosen goals, so I ponder a bit this time of year. The very end of December is, if nothing else, a great time for day dreaming about all the things I might just do once the winter holidays and their distractions are over. This January, I’m planning to do a 21-day day kitchen cure, something like the one the Kitchn tends to run annually. I’ll pick a daily project every day for three weeks and, I hope, end up with  a better organized, cleaner, easier to cook in space.

Other food-related things I intend to, or at least would like to, do in 2016 include:

  • continuing to write here, at least weekly, as well as slowly improving the site organization, my posting and pictures techniques, etc.
  • regularly trying food projects that scare me, at least a little bit*
  • helping run (and attending!) a cookbook club, inspired by this article on Serious Eats
  • meatless Mondays
  • more** actual weekly meal planning
  • more cooking with kids (and stepping back and letting kids cook)
  • etc.

What are you up to in the kitchen in 2016?

*suggestions welcome!

**really any weekly meal planning.

 

A Life Should Have Secret Plans*

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Surprise! I started a food blog.

I decided a few weeks ago, since I’m currently between paying gigs and November was approaching, that I should do something akin to NaNoWriMo. I even pondered doing the traditional challenge and pounding out a novel. Truth is, however, that all my novel ideas thus far haven’t because actual novels for a reason (or maybe multiple reasons). My spouse suggested a poem a day, but, while I actually do write poetry at times, a poem a day seemed a challenge that I was sure to fail at. Poetry is fickle, at least for me. I finalized my November goal as “Publish something every day in November. Twitter doesn’t count.” Then, I didn’t tell anyone, at least not at first. I wanted to have started the project before I announced it.

So here we are. My goal is one post per day in November, weekly posts thereafter. Anything related to food is fair game. If you’re reading this (and now someone might be, because I’ve started to admit this blog exists), please let me know what topics might interest you! Let’s see where this goes.

*Title stolen, with love, from A Softer World