A food/recipe blog seemed like the best format for what I wanted to do, which is have all my favorite recipes digitally in one place with any notes I have for them. Most food blogs suck. I don't want all the personal stories, ads, pop-ups, and whatnot weighing down my site. So most of my posts only include:

 

1. A quick beginning note to know or think about something before making the recipe

2. The recipe's ingredients

3. The directions

4. Final notes with what my husband, Luke, and I liked and what we would change (for our own personal taste) if the recipe was made again

5. Sometimes there's pictures

6. Sometimes there's information about the recipe if I got it from elsewhere, I always try to credit others

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I wanted a website for my own easy access to recipes, but figured other people could come across it. While this site is public, it was made for personal use:

 

• My pictures (if there even are any) will not be works of art. 

• While I'll try to stick to a format/template, maybe sometimes my mind will think a recipe needs to be written a different way.

• I know how much of a typical ingredient I would use for a recipe, so I might not give a real measurement (Call that out in a comment and I'll try my best to answer).

• This isn't a real blog with daily or weekly posts. I dump posts in when I can.

 

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Even more into the journal-ness: not all of my posts will be about things I make. Some are about things I would like to make, and are a note for the future. Others are about things I have eaten in restaurants, or that were made by others that were inspiring, and again, are personal reference notes.

 

I live in Chicago, so most of those restaurants will likely be local to me.

 

A lot of my ingredients come from a CSA, so they are seasonal produce from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan.