This is the first step. I open up Word and that damn cursor blinks expectantly. Oh the pressure! It’s telling me that whatever I decide to type next should be and must be good…and free of grammatical and spelling mistake so that I’m not plagued with those pesky squiggly lines. Am I the only one who finds those lines annoying when they don’t go away even after you’ve gone repeatedly over that sentence? Anyway, I’m getting carried away. This is a food and baking blog. Not English 101.
At last, I enter the world of The Blog. I am such a late bloomer and it’s because of my attitude toward it.
Indescribable…Indestructible! Nothing Can Stop It! Run! Don’t walk from…The Blog!!
Yes, I also watch too many movies. Surprisingly I don’t watch many movies about food. I find sometimes the food looks crazy amazing and then I remember it’s a movie so the food isn’t even real and the expressions on the actors’ faces are fake. It’s not a meaty lasagne full of cheese and loaded with carbs. It’s a slab of carb-free cracker made to look like soggy lasagne, topped with lactose free tofu cheese and simulated brown meat. Well, that’s what I think. I could be totally wrong, heh.
I wonder now how that would taste. My dad is a vegetarian so whenever he visits me I have to make sure I make him a vegetarian dish while the rest of my family is happy eating whatever dish I make (usually loaded with meat). As of late, however, my mom isn’t able to eat certain foods. Unfortunately, these are ingredients I tend to use a lot of such as eggs, dairy and chocolate. How sad is that? Once, I tried making a butterless, eggless, milkless chocolate cake for her (this is when she was still able to eat a bit of chocolate) and she said the cake was horrible. She said it didn’t taste at all like a cake. Pretty harsh, no? Of course she didn’t say this when I served her a thick slice of the cake. She told me months later when I asked if she wanted me to make her another butterless, eggless, milkless chocolate cake, sans the chocolate this time. I guess some things are sacred and are not meant to be messed with. Like a slice of sinful (real) chocolate cake.
As I was saying, I was somewhat against starting a blog because I was a bit intimidated by the thought of having to constantly write entries…with pictures. Let me tell you, I am horrible with taking food pictures. It’s not that I’m terrible at taking the pictures; it’s that the food is already in my stomach and going through digestion when I remember I needed to take a picture. I also live with an impatient man-friend, Jay, whose mouth starts to water the minute I bring scorching food out of the oven. He forgets to wait, or at least blow on his food, and thus I often hear “Ahh!” “Shit that’s hot!” and “Ow!” The food is in his stomach and already digesting way before I’ve had my first bite.
And so, for my first entry I do not have pictures, or even an item to showcase. It is, after all, breakfast time and I don’t normally cook up a storm for myself. Just coffee and a little something else.
See? Empty cup, coffee already nagging at my bladder.
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