Hello Sugar Babies!

Thank you for visiting my blog! I am glad that you find me interesting enough to make a visit. I am a new foodie! Correction, I have been blogging now for 5 years! I got a little seasoning on me now in the blogging world. I am somewhere in between being considered a full-time and part-time blogger. Last year, I attempted to pursue my blog full-time. However, the universe said “No. Not yet Nicole”. So I had to return to work and have been fighting like hell to officially become full-time blogger ever since. Oddly enough, I have not always been an expert in the kitchen. In fact, I use to burn water (yes, it’s possible). You will never guess what motivated me to take cooking and baking more seriously. Boredom. Absolute boredom! It started off with me making holiday cookies and it just never stopped. I started making cakes, homemade biscuits, rolls, pastries, main dishes, and the list goes on.

As I started to get into cooking and baking, I started to think how I can make the dishes I create for my family to benefit you, the reader. Well after years of careful consideration, refinement, and trial and error, I realized that my corner of the food blog world has been in front of me the entire time. It has been in everything I’d ever done! I create simple and easy recipes using common and affordable ingredients! Enough said. I am cognizant of the struggle of wanting to make a dish because it sounds and looks amazing only to find out that you don’t have certain ingredients or may not even know what those ingredients are or where to buy them. How many of us have gone through that? We find an easy recipe that we love and as we are going through the ingredient list, we see one or two ingredients we never heard of and end up not making the dish at all.

Cooking and baking are like a painting. A plate is my canvas and the cooking utensils are my brushes. My intention for my blog is to create a place where you can get a harmless, easy, and delicious recipe that you can immediately share with your friends and family. I also talk about matters of the heart under the umbrella sex and now being a mom. I really feel there is a huge area of opportunity we have to understand the point of views of a man and woman when it comes to relationships. There will be some things we will never understand about one another, but if we can create a healthy dialogue about those issues, at the very least, we can learn to respect each other’s differences, which would, in turn, eliminate, or reduce, a lot of issues that we  currently face such as higher self-esteem, an increased sense of self-worth, and healthier relationships. Also, there are so many stories and lessons in becoming a mom that I am learning and want to share. One of those stories is how I lost my first born child to SIDS. Losing a child for anyone is a hard issue to get through and I hope my story provides a lane of healing for anyone who has gone through anything similar.

In addition, a current message that has been circulating regarding women is that we are to perform our  “womanly duties” and be subservient to their household. After, practically being a woman is a pre-existing condition. I mean, do women still walk around barefoot and pregnant and answer at their man and children’s every demand? No! Women have a choice as to how they choose to serve their household. There are women who work and men who stay at home. Oh yea, it happens. Some women don’t know how to cook at all and their partners are fine with that. What I am simply trying to reflect is a different image of what it means for women to be “domestic”. It doesn’t have to be dull and lifeless and a requirement. No, no, no. Cooking can be fun, easy, and sexy. You can put sexy in a sexual context as it was intended. However, when I say something is “sexy” I mean that something is cool, hot, new, with a color of sexy in a semi-sexual way. I mean the food is sexy! You know what I mean?

 

In closing, food blogging is a wonderful way to share your thoughts or things that you love with the world. Cooking, baking, and building communities by giving different perspectives on each other is my way of, hopefully, planting seeds that will ultimately make this world a better place. Everyone on this planet has been charged with a task to restore this Earth’s beauty. Some people are singers, actors, human rights activist. But the true heroes are bloggers. Bloggers are real people going through real experiences and sharing them with…well….real people! I am very honest and I hope that comes across in my stories. I believe that I am charged with being a blogger and that is the gift that I want to give to make the world a better place. For you and me. I hope you continue to follow me and become a subscriber so you can stay up to date on my recipes and read my opinions.