A New Chapter

As I sit here with my breakfast of scrambled eggs, chocolate chip toast with peanut butter and a glass of OJ and Sabrina the teenage witch on in the background I realize that I need to get out of my comfort zone. I used to be afraid of change and new things. Like when I worked at the kennel for 2 1/2 years and it took my current boyfriend to push me to find a better job and I was afraid but I did it and couldn't be happier where I am right now. Any who this isn't that serious of a topic but it has to do with my baking. I have been printing off Pinterest recipes lately for baking and cooking but I am trying to go out of my comfort zone of just baking muffins, cookies, and brownies. I've always been afraid of using yeast and I made homemade wheat pizza crust the other day and it came out okay not exactly what it probably should have looked like. So I want to start to work with that more and just try different things like more breads and cakes and pie. I just need more people...

Now that my boyfriends roommate is gone for the next half year I have been cooking more dinners and different dinners instead of the boring easy stuff I was doing because its harder to feed two grown men and myself and try to have leftovers for the boyfriend to have lunch than it is for just him and I plus leftovers. This week I made beef stroganoff, beef enchiladas, grilled kielbasa couscous and corn,chicken and broccoli teriyaki with jasmine rice. I baked apple cider donuts this week which came out pretty good. My best friend and her husband are up from Florida for a couple of weeks and we got to have dinner and bowling with them last night. Its was so much fun! I miss that lady! This is her and I at her wedding. She was a beautiful bride! On Sebago lake; Frye island.  I am babysitting my bosses dog for 2 weeks while she is gone to New Zealand. he is such a love. 2 year old yellow lab named Barnacle. He is a total doofus. Other news; my boyfr...

Really exciting news that I got today from my brother and sister in law, they have decided to move to Savannah, Georgia!!! Currently they live in Colorado Springs but when they came to visit Maine during Christmas they realized how much they miss the ocean so decided to move back to the east coast to a place that my brother really loves and they have beautiful beaches. My brother was stationed in Savannah, Georgia awhile back for the army and he fell in love with it. My family and I went to visit him in 2007 and I fell in love with the place. It has got that old Southern charm feel and its beautiful! Now they will be closer to visit and a lot cheaper/easier. I am so excited for it to happen in the next few months. He also is going to be attending flight academy, which the army will be paying for, so he can finally fulfill his childhood dream of being a pilot. I could not be more excited/happy for the both of them!!! This is a picture of us in Georgia in 2007:    ...

I have come to terms that it is an addiction but a healthy one. It is always my happy place to be now is baking. If I could have a whole pantry full of just different kinds of baking gadgets and ingredients it would be a dream come true. I do cook as well but I don't enjoy it as much. I just cook because someone has to make dinner and my boyfriend certainly isn't going to. I look forward to having a really nice oven and bakeware cookware in the near-ish future. My boyfriend wants to start building his house this year and we agreed on a gas range stove since its way better at cooking things evenly and beautifully. Id like to get into candy making too especially for holiday presents and what not. I need nicer cooking ware than what I have to do that and some more gadgets. I'm not like amazing at it and make like my own recipes but I try to do some spins on the recipes I use. I like to bake at least once a week, ideally id do it every day but a. we have no dish washer so clean...