Hello all -
So here I am, one and half years (years!) since my last post on this blog. How times have changed. When I started this thing I did it as a way to document my love of cooking so I could put it on my application to medical school. Now I am in my second semester of a combined Masters/PhD program in Epidemiology. How did that happen? Story for another time.
Since starting school I have joined a gym (me? really?), gotten one personal trainer and then another (again, me?), and tried to be more healthy. First semester that didn't go so well. All the sudden I am back in school and it is hard! So I eat not-so-healthy. And the gym can only counteract that so much.
I made a 2015 resolution to eat healthy and be healthy. I know, I know resolutions don't last. But this one is going to. I swear.
On top of that resolution I was lucky enough to get four new cookbooks for Christmas from the lovely Robert. One is Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook, based off of the blog of the same name. Delicious, healthy food written in a funny way. And all recipes are vegan (!?!). I have never been vegan and I have no plans on becoming one (too much love for all the dairy - cheese, ice cream, milk, yogurt, need I say more?) but the recipes look real good and real healthy. The second book is The Kitchn Cookbook: Recipes, Kitchens, and Tips to Inspire Your Cooking. Also based on a blog of a similar title. And all around bible for being a good, and pretty healthy, cook.
So here is the final lowdown. My goal is to cook something different out of one of the other of the cookbooks every day until I get through them both. Hahahahahahahahaha yeah right. No here is the real deal. I am a grad student. Am I going to cook everyday much less post everyday? Heck to the no. But can I cook multiple things on weekends, try and make one or two things during the week, and set a little time on my Google calendar to take the 30 minutes to write a post? I hope so. As they say, "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars" - Les Brown.
So here is my real goal. Cook one thing during the week, even if that is just trying one of the drinks or salad dressings in Thug Kitchen during those really crazy weeks. Try and cook another thing on the weekend. Freeze a lot. Share a lot. Be healthy a lot.
Here goes nothing. Aiming for my first post to be Friday? Maybe? I am planning to make it about shopping to stock up my kitchen so I can actually cook some vegan (tofu? nutritional yeast? miso paste?) and hopefully it won't be about killing my little grad student bank account while doing it!
Fingers crossed I keep up with this the second time around.
Eat healthy, live healthy, be healthy.
Love,
Liz
So here I am, one and half years (years!) since my last post on this blog. How times have changed. When I started this thing I did it as a way to document my love of cooking so I could put it on my application to medical school. Now I am in my second semester of a combined Masters/PhD program in Epidemiology. How did that happen? Story for another time.
Since starting school I have joined a gym (me? really?), gotten one personal trainer and then another (again, me?), and tried to be more healthy. First semester that didn't go so well. All the sudden I am back in school and it is hard! So I eat not-so-healthy. And the gym can only counteract that so much.
I made a 2015 resolution to eat healthy and be healthy. I know, I know resolutions don't last. But this one is going to. I swear.
On top of that resolution I was lucky enough to get four new cookbooks for Christmas from the lovely Robert. One is Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook, based off of the blog of the same name. Delicious, healthy food written in a funny way. And all recipes are vegan (!?!). I have never been vegan and I have no plans on becoming one (too much love for all the dairy - cheese, ice cream, milk, yogurt, need I say more?) but the recipes look real good and real healthy. The second book is The Kitchn Cookbook: Recipes, Kitchens, and Tips to Inspire Your Cooking. Also based on a blog of a similar title. And all around bible for being a good, and pretty healthy, cook.
So here is the final lowdown. My goal is to cook something different out of one of the other of the cookbooks every day until I get through them both. Hahahahahahahahaha yeah right. No here is the real deal. I am a grad student. Am I going to cook everyday much less post everyday? Heck to the no. But can I cook multiple things on weekends, try and make one or two things during the week, and set a little time on my Google calendar to take the 30 minutes to write a post? I hope so. As they say, "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars" - Les Brown.
So here is my real goal. Cook one thing during the week, even if that is just trying one of the drinks or salad dressings in Thug Kitchen during those really crazy weeks. Try and cook another thing on the weekend. Freeze a lot. Share a lot. Be healthy a lot.
Here goes nothing. Aiming for my first post to be Friday? Maybe? I am planning to make it about shopping to stock up my kitchen so I can actually cook some vegan (tofu? nutritional yeast? miso paste?) and hopefully it won't be about killing my little grad student bank account while doing it!
Fingers crossed I keep up with this the second time around.
Eat healthy, live healthy, be healthy.
Love,
Liz
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