Why another food blog?

As if the chopping, cooking, baking and eating of food isn't enough, why do so many of us feel so compelled to write about food and photograph it, too? I don't have an answer for that. I only know that given the opportunity, I would lie on the couch all day watching people cook on TV. Or I would wander, undetected, from one food blog to the next - that endless chain of links that are like stepping stones across a wide river of information that I'll quickly forget and never use.

I love to cook. I love to eat. I love to talk about cooking and eating. I am married to an artist. I'm the mother of an artist. They get to create stuff and I want to, too. So, in addition to the chopping, cooking, baking and eating, I'm going to write about and photograph food because I know that somewhere out there, there's another food blog junkie looking for her next fix and she needs me.

The title of this blog come from something an acupuncturist said to me when I went to her for my middle-aged aches and pains. She asked me about my diet and when I told her about my typical day's food, she hesitantly asked, "Don't you think it might be time you started thinking about eating like, well like. . . "

"An adult?" I asked. Her look said "Unh huh."

I could do that. So now I, a born and bred Midwestern lover of food in large quantities of varying quality, am now eating like a bona fide grown up and enjoying the chopping, cooking, baking and eating more than ever. Stay tuned.