Blogger Virgin!

So this is definitely the first time I've ever blogged. Seeing as how inconsistent I am 99% of the time I know how I plan to use this blog, but let's all be prepared for it to take another direction at any given time :)
Let me go take the cookies out of the oven...
Mmmm, warm shortbread!

So this blog will be two-fold. I am going to use this as an experimental cooking blog (Picture Julie and Julia). I also wanted to try my hand at good ol life blogging. It won't take long to find out how blogging will agree with me, let's just give it a few days ;)

So Joey and I are on the last leg of our 10 day vacation. Boy, has it been glorious. I've done ALOT of cooking, more on that later. We moved our bedroom downstairs and moved our office upstairs. Our bedroom is super cozy, has wood floors, A CLOSET, ceiling fan, and french doors. Tall ceiling and close proximity to the bathroom and kitchen (for midnight snacking) are also great too. Don't know why we never thought of it before! The office is now upstairs as well as a library, reading room, and scrapbooking cubby. We really feel like we are bringing this house up to it's fullest potential. We've spent so much time thinking about and trying to get out of it that we've missed all the opportunities we could make for ourselves here. We are really beginning to fall in love with what this house has to offer us at this point in our lives.

Tonight I made my first ever roast chicken. I was fine getting it out of the packaging. I was fine getting it into the pan. I was fine pulling out the giblets. I was not fine, however, when I picked up a wing to tuck it under the body. I don't know what that noise was that came out of my mouth but I hope I never make it again! Realizing that I was pulling on an actual dead chicken arm really did me in. Joey had to fix up the rest of the chicken for me. Think I'll ever be able to cook a lobster??? Anyway, once  we got the chicken into the oven and on it's way to being double dead, things were looking up. I roasted some asparagus and mushrooms and whipped up some extra creamy mashed potatoes and dinner was ON! Made a white wine sauce with the chicken drippings and we were in hog...em...chicken heaven. Shortbread cookies are on their way to joining the party in just a few minutes.

We've got plenty more recipes planned to round out our beautiful looooooooooong weekend so I'll keep ya posted on those. Gonna go round up some chocolate sauce to dip those cookies in.