Dessert 1/1/11

Homemade peppermint ice cream and chocolate filled Piroulines!

Dinner 1/1/11

Chicken breast marinated in mango tequila jalapeno sauce, and various spices. Idaho baked potato with garlic butter and aged extra sharp cheddar.

**Nifty trick I found with baked potatoes, rub the outside with olive oil and sea salt before baking... makes really yummy skins!**

My New Year's Resolution

My New Year's Resolution is to actually use this thing. I take so many pictures of food, and eat at so many great places, I really shouldn't let this blog just sit here... that's my laziness for you. I made this thing mid last year and did a whole two posts! 2011 will be different... I hope.

My goal is to post 1-2 times a week. I'd love to post daily... but that's probably asking too much of myself (maybe next year...)

Tonight, my menu consists of chicken breast marinated in mango tequila jalapeno sauce and various spices and baked potatoes. The potatoes were given to us by Tony's parents. They came all the way from Idaho. I rolled the potatoes in garlic olive oil and sea salt before popping them in the oven. They will be topped with extra sharp cheddar and garlic butter (pictures to follow).

I think I will follow tonight's meal with some homemade peppermint ice cream that I made using my KitchenAid Stand Mixer and ice cream maker attachment.

Click here  for the ice cream recipe.

Conception

Isn't everyone a "foodie"? I mean, seriously, we all enjoy food. Everyone talks about food. Everyone talks about what restaurants are great... or terrible... or so-so. There's about a million and one food blogs out here floating around in the tubes... The New York Times even published an article about food bloggers and people who post pictures of what they eat on a regular basis. I know this, because a friend/co-worker of mine sent it to me because it reminded her of me. I take pictures of my food. I post them on my facebook.

I've noticed that most pictures that I post of the food that I eat have more comments than the pictures that I post of people and places. I've taken all of these factors into consideration and decided... why not me? Why should I start a food blog? I found no good reason not to so here we are... Monday morning, April 19, 2010, my food blog, "Isn't everyone a 'Foodie'?" comes to life.

Credit for the name goes entirely to my boyfriend. As we were walking home from an epic day of soaking up the sun and eating amazing food, we began talking about food blogs and people who post pictures of food, and he stated, "we're foodies".

quickly he followed this with, "Isn't everyone a foodie though?"

So there you have it my blog has a name. I've been thinking of starting this for months, but, due to laziness, I'm just getting around to it now. I embark on a journey of food. I'm not promising to take AMAZING pictures, as a matter of fact, most of the pictures I post will probably be from my iPhone. I'm not promising to be grammatically correct, or free of typo's although, I'll try. I'm also not promising to be as faithful as some bloggers and post every thing that goes into my mouth either. What I can promise, is pictures of amazing, and not so amazing, foods that I eat whether here in the city, or on vacation. I promise to include names and locations of restaurants I visit, and web addresses where possible, after all, if it's good food or bad, you'll probably want to know where it came from.

So here we go, come along with me as I continue my journey of raving about the foods that I love, and ranting about the foods that are not so great.