Edibabble

Somewhere between the idea for this site and the execution of it I lost my original purpose, which was to be a repository for my own recipes and my friends and families recipes.  It’s not to be a dumping ground for all recipes that anyone has ever made, that’s what the internet is for, but for just the things that we actually make or have made so that when we want to make it again, there is one place to go back to to find it and also whatever notes that we add along the way.  On the opposite side of the spectrum, it wasn’t supposed to be a fancy writing project or something that I ‘cared’ what other people thought of.  I created this site for me.  And honestly it could almost be on a local server with no access to the outside world, except that would defeat part of the purpose… to be useful to my friends and family.

The problem is that once you make it accessible to other people (everyone really), you can’t help but care about what the photos look like and whether or not your “spelling that word right.”  The truth is that I don’t care about those things.  I’m not a good writer and I know it.  Terrible speller.  But still I keep finding myself going “how do I make those home-made noodles again?”  And I know that I’ll never find that exact chocolate souffle recipe – which was why I created this site.

So my goal is to get back on track here and try to honestly NOT care about the (what I consider) superficial standards that have been holding me back.  I’m just going to get my recipes in here so that I can use them.  Because now that I’m home all the time I plan on cooking a lot more.  -michael