Well, it's time to pull up my big girl panties and begin to write! Since confession is good for the soul, I will begin with an honest confession. My basic temperament is choleric, mixed with some other stuff; so within my basic makeup is this desire to be "perfect" before I charge forward (hence why I've hesitated to just jump into this writing ring and go with it!). Somewhere I think if my writings aren't perfect, they won't be accepted. Well, after much soul searching and many years of not being accepted by the key men in my life: father, brother and first husband; I've decided "to hell with it" and I'm just going to begin to write and won't care what others think for a change. So, CONGRATULATIONS blog group...you're officially my guinea pigs! Feel free to comment and interact with my blogs as I will yours, then we can all grow in our abilities to communicate and "get it all out"!
This being my introductory blog, with this group, it only seems fitting that I jump in on my own topic: if I were to have my own cooking show what would it be and the history behind it. For years now, I have truly enjoyed cooking. I don't feel I'm all that great at it, but I do enjoy fiddling in the kitchen and coming up with stuff that others think is quite tasty! I'm not into gourmet type recipes at all, as a matter of fact, far from it! I love to use ingredients I have and am familiar with, especially spices.
Over this past 4 yrs, I've really gotten into watching the Food Network and have envisioned myself cooking like some of these chefs and feeling quite confident in it as well. Initially, if I had been asked this question about my own show, I would have chosen an Italian theme. Funny thing is that I'm not Italian and I would be once again conforming into something someone else wanted me to be, rather than just being true to myself and my roots.
My sister and I have tossed the idea around for the past few years of opening up a little diner together. She and I were both single and would fantasize about opening a restaurant. We'd always come back to the same basic idea that we'd both love a little, simple diner with really good soups and sandwiches. I've since married and left my sister in the dust, or so she says, and our little diner idea has gone by the wayside; but if I were to ever have my own show on the Food Network it would be along the diner principle: simple, very tasty, made from scratch and "comfort" in the feelings left afterward.
Bringing these simple principles together, I would make a wonderful homemade soup in each episode and a simple but delicious sandwich to compliment it. I used to be quite the Seinfeld fan, back in the day, and I can recall the episode that involved the Soup Nazi. His soups were amazing and people would line up for miles just to grab a bowl to go, even though it meant putting up with his nasty personality in the process! I love a great bowl of soup! My show would take me back to my roots and the very thing my own mother loved: soup.
"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup." Beethoven
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