Today is the first day of many that I will be adding to my journey of things to find myself and better the me I know is inside.  I am cleaning house literally, and figuratively.  After all, they say a clean house leads to a clean mind.  So, I am starting with eating better.  Now, that being said I haven’t quite grasped the will power to cut out all the bad I am doing.  I still have a couple vices like beer/liquor just in moderation and the occasional chocolate craving certainly will be met.  Although for the last few months since I have been living completely alone I have been on what most call the “Ramen diet”.  Basically ramen any way you can think of to make it.  That and the occasional can of green beans or on special occasions, a cooked meal.  From here on out though, starting today, I plan to cook at least 304 times a week for myself.  If people are here, cool.  I love cooking for others, but those times its just me, and the nakeds, I still plan to cook.  I find a lot of joy in cooking, and it puts my mind at peace.  Not to mention food can be and generally is beautiful.  Perhaps it will inspire me to start taking some foodie pictures as well as the landscape and portrait work I am currently doing.  On tonights menu, turkey tacos, homemade guacamole and some fresh greens, with a cool refreshing beer and I’m calling it a night.

While shopping today for the food that now fills my refrigerator, I saw something kind of disturbing to the normal “white girl” in me.  Cow lips… Yes, COW LIPS!  Now, I am sure they are obviously used for some sort of recipes, which I have no clue what, but hey.. Anyhow, it got me to think that I am going to add to my “bucket list” to try a completely exotic and new food at minimum of once a month.  So, I think this month, I am going to research a recipe using the cow lips and call it dinner.  Who wants an invite to dinner that night?  I also plan to start to crack open one of the many cookbooks I cherish on my shelves and try a completely new recipe at least once a week.  Which I will also post about when it happens.  I’m kind of excited really.  I’ve done that a couple times in the past and learned how to make some pretty amazing things, like seafood enchiladas and chicken florentine (one of my favorites now!)  So, lets see where my cooking skills lead me.  Maybe you will see me on the Next Food Network Star someday.

I challenge you to do the same.  Maybe not as much, but try it.  Crack a cookbook to any page, fo to the store, and just may something cool.  That $10 you would have spent on your morning coffee, a beer in the club, or in a machine at the casino will go a long way to something new.  I can promise you it will be a lot of fun too.  Hell, bring it here, and I will cook with you!  I welcome all.