Welcome!

I got a foolish idea into my head over this last weekend. A terrible, dangerous, silly idea. "Why not create a food blog?", I thought.

After all, it's not as if I struggle already to find enough time to keep up my long-running blog, Taking the Long Way. Why no, I'm sure I can manage to neglect two blogs at once.

But here I was, thinking how I love to cook. And how I enjoy writing also. So a cooking blog would be a natural extension, right? And of course there's more, the main thing, really - I like to show off. And what says overachiever more than baked-from-scratch scones, covered with home-made gooseberry jam, and topped with silky whipped cream, laboriously whipped by hand? Someone hand me a James Beard Award, right this minute!

And to be honest, there is a practical motivation at work, too. As often as I get asked for my recipes, it seems easier to pass along a URL than to write them out over and again. So here you are my friends, my coveted recipes. You asked for them, and here they are.

Many of these are family recipes that were discovered by my parents, and made by my sisters and me for years. Others are new classics in our home. But they are all tested, and tasted, and proven delicious. So enjoy, and let me know if you have any special requests!

-Gwyneth