Adventures of a Girl Serf in the Castle Kitchen

No, no, no need to overthrow the Czar. There are no real serfs here, just a gal who loves to cook and is sometimes rather good at it. She hopes only for a notice or two in the noise and haze and static which is the Wide World of Culinary Blogging. She worships Anne Burrell, Suzanne Goin, Madhur Jaffrey, Emeril Lagasse, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Buford, Mark Bittman, and of course, the Goddess Known as Julia. She thinks Mario is ok, but really likes his weekly feature in the NY Times' One Page Magazine, "What I'm Drinking Now". She thinks about food a lot, reads about food a lot, and now wishes to write about food...a lot? We'll see about the dedication level soon enough, won't we?

She is me. I am she. Note: not, "I am She". This is not a paeon to H. Rider Haggard. This is about my cooking, the recipes that interest me, the experiments I try, the meals that turn out well and the ones that don't. Especially the ones that don't, because we learn more from our failures than our successes. Mangia!