Thursday, October 23, 2014

Hails Comrades!

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J.R.R. Tolkien

Hi everyone, nice to meet you all. I’m Alex. I love books, heavy metal, the art of growing beards, and food. There is nothing better for me than putting a perfectly composed bite of food into my unfortunately undersized mouth, seriously, the dentist told me I have a small mouth, all my teeth won’t even fit in there. I feel this little dude's pain:




I’m not a foodie by any stretch of the imagination, but I love food.

I recently started working at a local organic food shop in the meat department where we make almost everything in house and I realized after a few weeks of being there, “Dude! You don’t actually know how to do any of those fancy-schmancy techniques you learned the words for! You don’t really even know how to cook anything that’s not breakfast or pasta!” Then everyone stared at me and wondered why I was shouting at myself (I wasn’t, and they didn’t.) So I resolved to:
1.       Sack up.
2.       Get a few cookbooks with a variety of recipes that don’t look too difficult.
3.       Cook my way through them (ish)
4.       Engage in moderately narcissistic behavior and write about my successes and (mostly) failures (I imagine) on the internet.

Until next time comrades,
Alex