Hello. So, where do I begin? 

First of all, I am a talker. I do have a tendency to go on a bit, so bear that in mind for future posts. But have no fear, for those who have no patience left (these darn young-uns with their 30-second attention spans), there will be a “skip-to-the-recipe” button. Today, however, you get just me and my words. 

Having said that, let’s give you a little heads up of what to expect, why I am doing this, and some sneak peeks of recipes that will be coming…soon? 

These recipes are mine–well, more accurately, they have become mine. One can never lay full claim to anything in life, much less a recipe, but still I will admit to having had a hand in creating these recipes. Whether I was inspired by others hardly matters, but still, I will admit that they are mine. Mine to hoard and mine to release as I chose. For those who simply click and skip down the recipe, that is their choice. For those who choose to stay and read, well, you may learn more about me than you might have initially thought about a simple stranger posting her simple recipes on the Big Bad Internet for all to read. 

Why am I doing this?

Well, why not? When you have lived the life I have lived, there comes an Ecclesiastical point in everyone’s life where they despair and wonder what mark they have left of themselves on the world. Well, not a single soul around me may remember me or my face, but my name, my recipes, and the stories that go with them-those will now live in time, in virtual cyber space forever. 

Think of this blog as part cookbook, part autobiography.

The stories you read may connect to the recipe, or they may simply be something that happened while I recorded the recipe. But all in all, this blog may become more than what this simple writer can tell. One can only hope. 

As to sneak peeks…

I will just sprinkle in a few photos and say…get the knives ready, set the table, and boil the kettle because Ciera (that’s me!) has some tea to spill!