An Introduction

Whats the cake for you ask?

I am celebrating the creation of Blog #2

Yep I have started another blog.  Why?  Why not!

In all honesty this is my way to re-boot.  Kristie 2.0 if you will.  I started The Blooming Spoon last summer as a way to document my cooking, baking, and gardening journeys.  An innocent goal to be sure and I attacked that goal with child-like zeal.  As I started learning more about the food blogging community the more I wanted to be like the cool kids.  The cool kids being those food bloggers with the fantastic, informative sites creating mouth-watering dishes with rare ingredients, the outstanding photography that instantly grabbed my attention, the posts that had 20 comments and more.  Those were the cool kids and I so longed to get my blog to that level.  As I strove for perfection I increasingly became intimidated by the cool kids and as a consequence my blog started to become a thing of it's own.  It started to become an imitation of what I saw everyone else doing and not what I was doing.  The intimidation I felt led me to believe that what I was doing was never going to be good enough; the recipes weren't gourmet enough, the pictures never in the top 9 or accepted to photo websites.  I felt as though I was the outsider looking in.

Because I let my lack of confidence intimate me I posted less and thus fulfilled my prophesy, I wasn't going to be good enough.  How can I have a fantastic blog and grow as a cook, writer, and photographer if I am too intimidated to do it?

So I had to find a solution...my solution: go back to my roots, the things that I love and start again.  I went to culinary school for baking and pastry so why not concentrate my efforts on the skills I do have and in turn use that to help me with the things I am not so good at.  I am going to start simple, just baking, simple photos and a couple of funny stories peppered in for good measure.  Most of all no intimidation!  The food bloggers I have had the pleasure to virtually meet have been wonderful supportive people who at one time had the same goal as me: just to have fun.  They were once in my shoes too, that outsider looking in.  I can't be intimidated with that, but I can admire their hard work and courage.

So I re-boot, control-alt-delete and start anew!  I have learned one good thing (if not more) and that is...I am good at what I do but I am no good at doing what others do.  This is me...flaws, bad lighting and all!!!

WELCOME!