Both C and I spent most of the day relaxing. Translation: He watched football while I surfed the net, facebook, and cooked a little bit. Last year we really tried to move away from processed foods and eat more vegetables and meat and this year I hope we can continue to move towards a simpler way of eating while I improve my cooking from scratch skills.
I started today off with my first attempt at Alton Brown’s southern biscuits and sawmill gravy.
The biscuits were a little tough. I think I may have kneaded them a little to much and then I left them in the oven so they were burned some. Guess I’ll be trying them again this year and see if I get a better result especially since the gravy turned out so well. Creamy, wonderful, sausage gravy that would taste great over more then just biscuits.
I have black-eyed- pea soup in the crockpot for this year. I used CrockPot black-eyed pea soup over at A Year of Slow Cooking as a guide and soaked the beans last night and put them in the crockpot around noon and added some onion and minced garlic about 4 hours into cooking. Half an hour before the beans were done I added the sausage and jalapeno green sauce to the mix to give it a little kick since Chris likes his food with a little spice.
I’ve been away from my website for several years after having a long struggle with writer’s block and what I really wanted to write about throughout the year. Last year I found a lot of food blogs that I enjoyed reading so I in 2011 I hope to start posting about Chris and my attempts at eating less processed foods. I want to work on learning to cook from scratch starting with doing what I’m doing now and using recipes I find in cookbooks and other blogs. Over the course of this year I hope I can learn to create some of my own recipes for our family.
Since I’m trying to get back into the habit of blogging not all of my posts will be food based. I hope to introduce our four goofy cats, after the loss of two of our cats Chris and I have had since we first got married I never thought I’d be using that phrase once again, and our resident chowhound.
Happy New Year!