January 25, 2025

Well, my first post was over a year ago, so, not off to a great start. Haha! Have you ever heard of the idea of picking a word to be your theme each year? I have a list going of my options, even though we’re well into 2025.

• create
• action
• growing
• fruition
• meaning
• nourishing
• purposeful
• learning
• supportive
• quality

I have yet to pick one, but I like looking at the list, so I must be on the right track.

As I was looking into the year of 2025, I had the goal to re-visit this blog as a creative outlet. With the theme being my exploration of food and cooking, I wanted to create a list of topics that I wanted to dive into for later posts and to guide my exploration. Here is my list so far:

• Wooden utensil care
• Trying out new recipes
  • My family’s multi-generational cookbook
  • My mom’s recipe box
  • New dishes my partner and I would like to try
• Who inspires me in the cooking/cooking influencer world?
• Baking
• How to make cooking more enjoyable
  • Kitchen layout
  • Kitchen supplies
  • Where do I learn more skills to aid in this topic (i.e. mise en place, which I think I learned from Bon Appètit test kitchen – r.i.p.)
• Hosting – how to begin
• Aiming to nourish myself with more nutrients for a healthy life
• Learning cultural food practices
• Gardening
• Learning about various cooking tools
• Photography, for documenting my journey along the way

That’s about all that I can think of right now. I am happy to put this all in writing and I will attempt to pick my first topic of exploration here soon. Cheers!