New Beginnings

Well, it has certainly been a long time since I posted anything substantial to this blog—just under two years to be exact. Anyway that is something I am looking to change.

Last year I made a New Years resolution to blog more. First of all I was going to clean up this blog, and move it back in the direction of just a food blog. Secondly, I was going to start an Art blog to deal with all the art that would be vacating this blog and lastly I was going to start a beer blog with the lofty goal of reviewing 52 beers over the course of the year.

To cut a long story short, it was kind of a disaster. I started the art blog but didn't really follow through on it. My beer blog was all back posted at the end of the year and this one, well, it should be fairly self-evident how well that worked.

Anyway, rather than live my life in the past and trying again to clean up this blog this year and then move forward, I have decided to, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Risky Business, say "Fuck it." Okay so those weren't his exact words, but I take it as artistic licence—the sentiments are the same. Rather than constantly feeling like I needed to catch up on all my blogs before I could start doing new stuff I am going to just try starting with a clean slate.

So here is my resolution for 2012. This year I will blog more. But unlike last year, I don't just want blog "more"as an abstract ethereal concept but specifically I want have the following plans:
 - Get back in the habit of doing #selfportraitfridays and posting them here
 - Complete a 365 photo a day project
 - Similarly, i would like to keep a daily blog (even if it is just a sentence or two) for the next 365 days
 - Complete 26 beer reviews over the course of the next year
 - Over the next month bring my art blog up to date with all my latest projects and actually keep it current

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So that's my plan, those are my goals, and here is day One. I am not sure how well this is going to work, but I am going to try my damnedest to keep up with it.

Catch ya on the flipside

-pica

So it has now been a year and I am beginning to worry that I will never actually get around to posting the recipes and photos for the things that I made, so instead I will just post a list of the items that you unfortunately will not get to see at this time.

Lime-coconut macaroons with haupia (coconut pudding) filling and chili chocolate dipping sauce
Chocolate-espresso scones
Coconut Creme Caramel
Poffertjes
Tiramisu
Vegan Date and Cashew Truffles
Oregano Flat bread
Beer Bread (multiple versions)
Walnut-Carob Biscotti
Sopapillas
Pannekoeken (Dutch pancakes)
Walnut and Brown Sugar Roll
Camembert, Fig and Basil Puffs
Chicken and Cheese Pretzel Bites
Cinnamon Rolls
Sweet Granola
Savoury Granola
Honey Florentines
Rootbeer Cake
A Decadent Morning: Waffle Sandwiches
Vegan Raspberry Cookies
Broiler Cake

Absence: explained...

Well, I haven't posted here is a long time and I thought I might as well explain why. I started a large number of posts a few months back after a flurry of cooking and never got around to finishing them (mostly due to the fact I misplaced there pictures). Nonetheless, I will try to finish them up shortly and back post them to the proper dates, plus add links below