We are now on Facebook. So, if you feel like reverse-finding recipes (through pictures instead of through posts) you can do that there! We’ll post a quick update on there every time a new blog is available, in case you aren’t subscribed to our RSS or in case you don’t want to check back every few days wondering when we will update. Also you can become a fan of us and that way more people will be able to see the blog through you. Please promote us by becoming fans!

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-Ashley

It’s a little late, but Happy New Year Everyone! This post is just to give you a taste of what we’re planning for the blog this year. Consider it your appetizer, so that you will whet your appetite for what’s to come

This year, we’re continuing our two posts per week that we started a few months ago. We hope to have a few series’ of posts that will relate to each other, besides our continuing pursuit of foreign cuisines (which will now include cultural notes about what flavors and foods are popular, an d potentially why they are — in relation to borders, history, etc). The first of these series is the “Cooking Basics” series. This will explore things that we have so far taken for granted = techniques. This is to not only improve our own basic skills (which up to this point have been mostly self taught or improvised), but we also aim to brush up upon or teach you, our readers, with definitive cooking skills. Whether our readers know about or are unfamiliar with different knife cuts, aspects of a basic marinade, making a roux, or other things, we hope to really incorporate a back-to-basics approach into our blog. This way, when we handle more advanced recipes, both you and us will not be daunted by the techniques required to properly pull the meal off.

Another series we hope to explore is a review one. In this one, we will continue with our started with introducing new oils to you, by learning about the histories and flavor profiles of new (or common) oils and spices. WE hope to, by doing this, expand our (and your) culinary points of view.

Another new thing we will try out is doing experiments with special-fare-diets, such as veganism or vegetarianism. In the case of veganism, for example, we would document our attempts to live for a week on such a diet — how we feel, what tastes good, what we think about it overall, etc. We think that in this way, we can show our readers an inside look at these dietary restrictions so that if they ever choose to live that lifestyle, they could have a reliable source of information (or at least as reliable as a week’s worth of eating that way could be).

Of course, we will also continue sharing new recipes that we create or try out with you. We hope you continue reading with us this year, as we really do this for you as much as we do it for ourselves, if not more

Happy Tasting!

–Ashley n Cory