Welcome

Welcome to Eat By the Spoonful!  Please read my About section to learn all about this blog.

I have wanted to write a blog for the longest time.  But, it wasn’t until now, when I have the resources and the motivation, that such a dream could become a reality.  As I proceed toward graduation and an increasingly uncertain future, my motivation to accept every opportunity that comes my way has increased.  A food blog seems the perfect way for me to improve my writing and culinary skills.  Considering my long-unfulfilled desire to exercise my creative muscle, it has become an opportunity that I absolutely cannot refuse.

I compare this new venture of starting a food blog to a safari.  Whenever exploring the grassy savannahs of Africa, there are rules that need to be followed.  These rules are set for one’s safety, so one doesn’t get trampled by an elephant or attacked by a group of restless baboons.  Similarly, venturing out onto the vast landscape of the blog writing world is accompanied by a need to set expectations and goals for myself, goals which I will consider the ingredients for a blog.

Recipe: Food Blog

Ingredients
Proper Credit
Frequency
Conversationality
In-depth Instructions
Diversity

Procedure
1. Properly re-distribute recipes whenever necessary with instructions written by me and credit attributed to the original authors. (In reading about copyright rules for reprinting of recipes, I have learned that it is lawfully permitted to reprint ingredients, but not recipe procedures.  So, I seek to adhere to these rules of recipe propriety.)

2. Post as often as possible in order to keep the blog actively simmering.

3. Write in a conversational tone with a sprinkling of rambling and a pinch of anecdotes.

4.  Post detailed instructions describing the fine details of the cooking process.  Optional: Post pictures of the process if available.

5. Explore wide variety of recipes/meals from different cultures or cooking practices.

As I see it, these are the essential ingredients for a blog.  I do have a lot of goals for my blog, but I hope to stay true to the above tenets as often as possible.