New Years Resolutions

Ok, so it's a few days after New Years but I've been sick so cut a girl some slack. I'm not going to share all my resolutions with you because this is a food blog. not somewhere to go on and on about issues with graduate school and/or work. I am going to share with you my food related resolutions.

Recently I have had a few people actually express an interest in my food photography. I know they might just be trying to be nice but it still gave me a little bit of confidence into looking into selling some. So step one was to set up another blog, one that was exclusively for my pictures. If I get some interest in that I might move them to an actual website where people can buy them, however, still doing the VISTA thing I have to be careful. I can't really market this so for now it will probably just stay an underground thing for those close to me. Once I'm done with VISTA I will open it up more and really try to make something with it. I love taking pictures of food and so far I'm doing a learn as I go kind of thing. It makes me feel really good when someone says they like my pictures.

While I was setting up the blog for the food photography I had an idea: make a cookbook. Ok so it was an idea that had been stirring since I made that shutterfly book of my food photography. People were asking if I had made all the food in the book and I wished I could have said yes. So that being said, this cookbook isn't going to be fancy, or elaborate, but something that I can say with pride that yes, I not only took all the pictures, but cooked all the food too. More details to follow as they come up.

Next is just getting back to cooking. I have neglected cooking since I left Kentucky and this is unacceptable for me. I miss getting in the kitchen and getting my hands dirty. And with getting back to cooking comes getting back to this blog. At first I felt like I had something going and then life hit and it kinda fell apart. Getting cooking again will also help me with getting my heath back on track, but I said I wouldn't bog you down with non-food resolutions.

One other little side note for this blog. I need to actually put something on all the other parts to it. I have yet to put and tricks and tips or favorite gadgets up. I need to do that too. I believe this one needs a sooner deadline though so I am going to say that by the end of February I will have posted my favorite gadgets and some tricks and tips.

As for deadlines on other resolutions:
The food photography deal will be on going. I'd like to putz around with it now and then really work at it once I'm done with VISTA. Not to say you can't buy from me before then but I can't really market it as a business until then.
The cookbook might also take some time, because I'm going to want it to be just right. However, maybe by my birthday I can have a rough draft going. I'd really like to have an original recipe in there. That would be heavenly!
And finally, getting back to cooking. Well, that I want to get on this weekend. And not baking, I mean cooking. I like baking too but you can't live on cake alone. Well you could but you'd be sure to find yourself on The Biggest Loser in no time.

So there you have it. My food related New Years Resolutions. I hope you enjoy and I really hope I stick to them because they really do mean something to me.

Until next time...

---Dare to Cook---