Project Proposal

In the last few months, I have taken a big interest in cooking. At the beginning of the summer, I spent some time with my grandma, who is an AMAZING cook. She taught me to make drunk chicken (and introduced me to lemon pepper seasoning - LOVE IT) and we talked a little about cooking in general. I then spent another summer at a camp where we cooked a couple nights a week on a campfire, and in order to keep from eating the same thing every week, I learned a bit about preparing food. The week or two I was at home this summer I spent wishing I knew more about cooking than pancakes and spaghetti.

So here is where my project comes in. I am going to learn to cook. I mean, I know some, obviously, but I want some sort of repertoire of recipes in my brain, and I want to eat some good food this semester - the nest is killing me, and I don't even want to think about seaco. I have a bunch of recipes I have saved from bettycrocker.com, a couple magazines, and some family/friend recipes. I am going to cook one entree a week and one other dish - an appetizer, a drink, a dessert, etc. I will post where I got the recipe from, take pictures, evaluate, say what I changed when cooking or what I would in the future, and be descriptive as I can in the process. The last two or three weeks I would like to cook my food without using a recipe - therefore using the knowledge and experience I have gained in this process.

I went to the store today and bought food to make Mexican Shepherds Pie and Fresh Peach Salsa - food for week one, care of bettycrocker.com. =]