Why Aaron is blogging

I started cooking when living on my own in college and realized that it was a lot less expensive to make my own spaghetti sauce from scratch than paying $1.00 for a little packet of spaghetti helper. It seemed a lot to pay for a little packet of spices and I still had to buy the hamburger, tomatoes and such. I read the label and figured out that for a small investment in some spices I could do the same thing for a lot less. You can do a lot with just salt, pepper, oregano, thyme, garlic, and tomatoes. Spaghetti sauce, stews, chili. Make a big pot and eat for a week. Beats going to McDonalds, even if a burger was only 50 cents then.

Learning to cook has always been easy. Food is a sensual experience, I love going to the market and seeing the produce or meats out on display. If I lived in Europe, France or Italy I would go to market each day. Lois buys for the week, I buy for the moment.

The problem is that cooking is easy, so I have fallen on bad habits. Cooking is so easy for me that I tend not to think about it in a really thoughtful way. Thus the blog. It is a way to focus on food, cooking, and the eating experience. Think about where my food comes from, how I prepare it, even how I eat it. Reflection is part of the learning process. So this is for me. If you get something out of it, that's cool too.