Let's Do This!

Ugh, not another food blog!!!

If that's what you're thinking, you might just want to steer clear and move along. However, we (Rob and Jessie) are hoping this site will be a little more open-ended than just more food porn. We're not really sure what our posts will look like, but we do know that we've been inspired to share some of the tidbits that result from our creativity and joy around making food - and maybe some other creative endeavors too, who knows!

We always prefer to make food for other people. It really is Rob's love language. Of course, the majority of meals we make are our weeknight dinners for two, but we often find ourselves wanting to share those too. This usually results in left-over sharing in the staff room the next day, along with excited talk of trying new ingredients and swapping recipe ideas. So really, this is just a place for us to share with more of our family and friends more often. Jessie never feels like her instagram pictures really communicate the intended message. What we really want to say is "We just tried this for the first time and it's so easy and sooo good, here's how to make it!" or "We just learned you can use _______ instead of _______ to make ________ even better for you - so simple, try it!" What we're definitely not going for is "Hey suckers, look at the delicious food you're missing out on. Bet you wish you were here!"

Oddly enough, we were inspired by Rodney Mullen, a pro-skateboarder from back in the day. In his TED talk, he spoke about the reward of sharing his creativity with a community that built on what he did and watching it become greater than what he could do himself. He said that watching the community he contributed to use his freestyle skating and tricks like the "ollie" as a foundation to completely transform the sport was more rewarding than any of the many championships he won. Holy humble pie! So here we are, far from pro's in any of our creative attempts, but inspired by the idea of contributing something we love to our community. We'll have to see if the digital medium is as meaningful as it is efficient, but we think it's worth a shot! On a much smaller scale, we want to take what we get creative with in our day-to-day and share it with our little community so you can take what you like from it, make it even better, and then hopefully share it back. Or even better, share something new so that we can learn too!

There you have it folks, our fun little mission statement.

Now all this typing has gotten us hungry, so we're gonna go make dinner! We'll see if we deem it creative enough for our first food post...


Rob and Jessie

(More current photos to come, promise)