An Introduction

Hello!!! I wanted to give a bit of a background about this blog and why my wife has so many recipes. We have been together 6 1/2 years. She encouraged me to go back to school and get my Master's Degree. I started the online program in the Fall of 2013. We both work and shared the responsibility of cooking. However, I don't really like cooking after a long day of work and she didn't like eating the same thing each week. She wanted variety! Well, I finally just broke down and said I could not cook, do my course work, take care of two boys, and teach each day AND cook new recipes. She said she would take over the cooking and she did! She would either cook the full meal or start it in the morning and leave it for me to finish when I got home (either in the fridge or the crockpot).

My wife also decided that she didn't want to make the same recipe twice! She started looking for recipes and started her collection. After a few months, we decided to start rating the recipes and even Jacob and Elijah got to help rate them. We rate them on a scale of one to five with five being the best. We also break it down to 4.25, 4.5 or 4.75 and so on going below 4 if it isn't good. We only keep recipes that get a 4.5 or above. We have had very few recipes go below that! I have even helped look for recipes and do some of the cooking. I mostly made meals over holiday breaks and the summer. However, grad school is now done (YEA! graduated in December of 2015), so I have a bit more time to cook. I do get to choose my recipe and can decline one if I don't feel I will be successful. Now that Jacob is home from college (he graduated in May of 2016), he is cooking about once every two weeks and we rate his meals as well. We even have some side dish recipes!

Now, I like to make desserts so there will also be some dessert recipes and the first recipe I post will be a dessert. My wife has had a long day and we have only just talked about this blog. I don't want to bother her and ask her for her recipe book. I will also post links to the recipes when I can find them! The majority of the recipes have come from sites online.

I hope you like this blog and give some feedback on the recipes if you try them!

Thanks for reading and ENJOY!