Happy Blogiversary to Me!

It’s hard to believe that it was two years ago that I started this blog.

Two years ago, I had no idea that my life now would be based in France. I had never been to the apartment I now call my home.

I hadn’t even considered writing as a living, and now that’s all I think about.

Two years ago, I lived at home on Long Island, working at a restaurant for most of my life and sleeping off the working for the rest of it. My dinners were often made up of 7-11 slurpees, and when they weren’t, I was desperately trying to learn how to cook.

It’s strange how much more comfortable I am now. I look back to some of my first posts, like this one about cooking for my family, and I remember how scared I was that things wouldn’t turn out the way I wanted them to, that my cooking wouldn’t come out. I worry about that sometimes now, but not nearly as often or as much. Back then, I was worried about whether my salmon would cook through. Now I wonder if the seasonings I used this time will be better than last time.
I thought it appropriate to mark this occasion with something that isn’t necessarily cooking-related, but is food-related. Tomato-related, to be precise. How fitting.

This, and a hard-boiled egg topped with Tabasco pepper sauce (which is my favorite thing in the whole world next to red wine) were my lunch. Note to those of you, like me, who scoff at the idea that older eggs are better for boiling than newer eggs: it’s true. Old hard-boiled eggs don’t like to be peeled. I don’t have a picture of the carnage, but it wasn’t pretty. Half of the egg white came off with the shell, and I had to pick it off with my fingernails. By fingernails, I of course mean, ladylike with a spoon. Yes, of course.

Thank you to all of you out there who have been reading and commenting over the past two years, and even to those of you who have been reading and not commenting. I’m going to take a page out of Brilynn‘s book and ask that for this, my second anniversary as a blogger, all of those of you who have been quietly reading and not commenting, choose today as your day to come out of the woodworks and say something, if only your name, so that we can all celebrate together. I know I’m excited for what the next two years (and hopefully more) this blog will bring, and I hope you are too!