Here I am - Chey CAN Cook :)

Yup, here I am, on the couch, laying down with the laptop, switching between Property Virgins and the Pats game, just hearing of Patrick Swayze's passing. I decided today, while also laying on the couch, that I was going start a cooking blog thing:) Since moving in with my now husband, I have discovered that I find cooking and baking very relaxing and something I can do, and enjoy doing, on my own. Ask me again how I feel about cooking after we have kids and I can't get them off of me;)

I have been very lucky with the whole let's get started cooking thing. When I moved out of my parent's home and in with my best friend Melissa, my mom and future mother in law both got me cookbooks :) I also then began the University of Lissy; what's that you ask? Well Melissa is the extraordinaire of all things cooking and crafty - I learned many basics of cooking from her, that you don't put metal lids in a microwave, and that you do not feed onions to cat...but anyways.

When I moved in with my now-husband, I started listing a menu on a small white board hanging in the kitchen so we both would know what we were having each night, and so I could build my grocery list off of it. I usually take one night to either look thru all of my cookbooks (I think I have about 12 - my friends, family, and co-workers were very generous during my bridal showers!), Kraft magazines that I get, and my fave cooking websites, including www.cooks.com; Ron then looks forward to seeing the menu and commenting (usually good comments:)).