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I'm not sure if it is my new job, or the time of year - but I've been inspired to start cooking again over the past few months. I used to cook all the time, but I think somewhere along the way I convinced myself that it wreaked of domesticity, and therefore was a horrible thing to become. In retrospect, maybe I mislead myself a little in the belief that any resemblance to a domestic homemaker was bad. I'm not sure what lead to my strong desire to disassociate myself with that stereotype, but whatever it was...I'm glad that it's not carried over into this new phase of life.

In the past several weeks, I've made whole grain poppyseed cookies, crepes, apple cake, organic carrot cake, and a few other wonderful recipes. Since my blog has always sort of had a living, breathing life of it's own - and a desire to grow and broaden it's horizons as much as I do, I've decided to add a new category dedicated to this resurfaced interest in culinary arts.

You know what's absolutely crazy is that I'm already thinking about Thanksgiving. I suppose it's not that far off, but I'm not generally the sort of person who plans that far ahead. I've been making our thanksgiving dinners for the past 3 years or so, and am particularly excited about it this year because I'm trying out some new, healthier alternatives. Ramekin Pumpkin Bread, rather than twice baked potatoes - whipped vanilla/butter yams - homemade cranberry jam...the list goes on. I'm doing "trial runs" on most of these recipes so that my thanksgiving table is BEAUTIFUL.

Anyway - I'm going to run now, but I fully intend to post a picture of the Apple Cake I made today later on.

-Lindsey