Topic-Changing-Thursdays It's Been 1 Year!?

If you’re like me, you sometimes have trouble keeping track of time. They say that the older you get, the faster time seems to go. I definitely have times when life feels like it is flying by. K and I had plans for our first couple years of marriage, and it’s crazy that we’re already coming up on 2 years!! We need to work on our list a bit more, I guess. Hehe.

In more blog-worthy news, today is the day that I started blogging. Well, one year ago today, that is. I thought about sharing some super awesome recipe today, but I had no idea what could properly commemorate the occasion, so I decided to do what many others do, and reward the readers!

As promised, you will get to enter for a prize today!

Today is Thursday, March 7, 2013, just to be clear, and I will keep this open through Sunday night (March 10, 2013). All you need to do is leave a comment about why you come and read this blog. Even if today was your first time visiting. When you comment, you  should also make sure to include a valid email address so I have a way of contacting you if you are the winner! After Sunday, midnight PST, I will officially stop counting any additional entries. You can only enter once, so don’t be sneaky. Then, I will randomly pick a winner and announce it Monday. Because I will be shipping goodies, I need you to be a US resident…sorry to my non-US followers.

As for the prizes, I am leaving it open to the winner. You can pick to have me send you…

1. Local treats (I live in the Seattle area, FYI), or
2. Treats made by yours truly (you can make requests suitable for shipping)

Obviously you need to be okay with sharing your address with me, so keep that in mind when entering this little giveaway. Good luck to all!

Celebrate!

In honor of my one year of posting, I am brainstorming ideas for my new year. If you have ideas, please share those, too! I would like to make the following in the near future:

1. Puff Pastry dough
2. Tiramisu, all from scratch (including the Ladyfingers) I did it here
3. More tarts, especially fresh fruit ones with pastry cream (yay for summer berries in a few more months!) Done here with some chocolate and strawberries!
4. Momofuku Milk Bar Crack Pie
5. Homemade Twix bars (or something similar) Millionaire Bars will hit the spot for this!
6. Lobster–any dish with it since I’ve never cooked it I made a Healthy Lobster Bisque
7. Homemade pasta (I’ve made some in the past, but want to make more!)
8. More side dishes (I always focus on the main dish and forget about the fun sides)

I remember being in college and making new goals each semester (they worked better for me than New Year’s resolutions because the timelines were shorter and I picked realistic goals). When I had an apartment, I had a goal of making a new dish a week or something like that. That was when I only had a few cookbooks and the internet was still pretty sad with few recipes. (Of course K just told me about how he watched ALL of the videos on Youtube when it started–there were apparently only 40 for quite a while.) Do you have any cooking goals for now or this year?

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