I started this week off with a dilemma. Although I got behind a bit during the holidays, I feel like I need to post at least once a week to remain a viable blog. After all, I'm making money now-my first payment from the mucky-mucks who provide the advertising that frames this page will be here by the end of this month. But there can be no clicks without content. Problem is, I don't just write about food. I read about it as well. I've already gushed about Macheesmo on these pages but there is also Kayln's Kitchen, which has food so delectable I looked at it off and on for a month before I realized it was dedicated to the South Beach Diet, and The Food in My Beard, whose author must really take the whole "a picture is worth a thousand words" thing to heart-his step by step photos make any recipe seem easy. I could easily list a dozen more, but I'm worried if I gave you that many great blogs to read you wouldn't come back. The point of all this is that I ended up with a cooking conundrum. I need content, but on all the days I allot to creative cooking (three days a week are for leftovers or such challenging meals as potatoes topped with chilli,) I filled the menu with other blogger's dishes. Had they been written any length of time in the past I could have filed them under "Other People's Recipes" and hoped any slight modifications I made might make it worth reading about the process, but the things I am cooking are from recent enough posts that even fairly heavy modifications would still feel like theft. Obviously, I could have scrapped one of the meals and replaced it with something of my own, but that isn't what I wanted to do. African peanut stew sounds great. Chicken tortilla soup simmering all day in the crock pot sounds wonderful. I decided I would have to bite the bullet and find the cash to finish my half written review of the Salt Tears Coffeehouse and Noshery some lunch hour, and headed to the store.
