A food/recipe blog seemed like the best format for what I wanted to do, but 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 should only include:

 

1. A quick beginning note

2. The recipe's ingredients

3. The directions

4. Final notes (the most important part and pretty much the whole reason I'm doing this) 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 my recipes, but figured maybe somebody else would check this site out too. 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 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 produce from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan.