Inspired by the movie Julie and Julia I have created my own personal blog. I am not going to cook recipes from Julia Childs for the next year but there may be some Paula Deen recipe attempts. I have many interests and cooking is my favorite thing to do. My Grandma taught me how to cook cause my Mama hates to cook. Grandma is my first idol and then there is Paula Deen. We had to place Grandma into an Alzheimer's unit in February of this year and she is almost to the point of not knowing who I am. I miss my Grandma so much that it hurts but I take comfort in knowing that she gave me so many things in life that no one can ever take away. The biggest thing she gave me is the ability to cook as good as she did. I love cooking her recipes but I also like to invent dishes of my own sometimes. I am currently working on putting together a cook book full of her recipes and mine too. Grandpa asked me to work on this project and I am honored to do it.
My second love is Gardening. My Mama had a large part in teaching me how to plant flowers and plants but again my Grandparents taught me all I know about our vegetable garden. Last year (2010) they handed down the tiller to me that Grandpa has used as long as I can remember for their gardens. They taught us everything they knew about gardening and made weekly trips to see us so they could check on the garden. They were so proud of how well the first garden did. We planted our second garden this year and it did not do as well but we had some severe heat this year so no one had great success with their gardens. In September I planted my first fall garden full of collards and turnip greens. We finally have some turnip greens ready to pick but we are still waiting on the collards to be ready. We have tons of collards.
These are the two things I love to do the most so if you follow my blog you will probably hear a lot about both things. A lot of people pay for therapy but cooking and working in the yard and garden is my therapy and I like the price much better.
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