Hello friends!!!! I'm here- I'm alive!!!! I have constantly been wondering whether my 2 month hiatus from the blog was going to be worth it... I was on a roll with my entries, the writing was getting easier and I was full of ideas. I was scared that I was going to get lazy, there were times during the renovation that the blog didn't even cross my mind... but that all changed as my new kitchen started going up. Before it was even finished I knew it was going to be amazing, I just knew that I would love it and that I was going to be wrong about the concerns I had about falling out of habit with my blog and with that the ideas of what I wanted to cook started to come back to me.
2 weekends ago John and I 'semi' moved back home, I say semi because we are still living out of a suitcase and our lounge room, TV etc are all still under covers. As excited as we were at the prospect of moving back home we knew there was going to be a lot of cleaning that needed to be done and I was itching to set up my new kitchen. Most people who know me well know that I'm not a fan of cleaning, the number of times my mom used to ask me to clean my room growing up. Don't get me wrong, I'm not dirty just messy but I knew where everything was and those few times that I decided to spring clean my room , I could never find anything!! My mom always hoped that when I grew up and got married that would all change... let's just say I am still not a convert! John on the other hand is a clean-freak (lucky me!!!) when we were dating he loved the fact that I loved to cook but I started to notice he would follow me around the kitchen with a mini broom and dustpan. I always planned to pick up that piece of carrot I dropped or that piece of onion that fell off the cutting board... but he would always beat me to it, and who was I to complain?!?! After we got married we had this unwritten rule, I do the grocery shopping and cooked the meals and he cleaned/vacuumed/ironed. I know it doesn't seem like a fair deal but trust me I'm a pretty damn good cook ;)
Anyway without boring you with the mundane story that was endless cleaning and un-packing, I official cooked the first meal in the kitchen yesterday. It was just a quick breakfast for John and I after 2 weeks of hard work. I made a lean turkey and ham omlette with mushrooms and onions. I pretty much used what I had left over in the fridge for when I packed John's lunch for work plus one single onion I had left that hadn't gone off, and it's not that it wasn't blog worthy, more so that that my camera and tripod were safely packed way... I dunno if it was the fact that we were starving or the from the excitement it was made in our new kitchen, but it was THE MOST DELICIOUS omelette I have ever had!!
So that's the good news... I'm still around and cooking. I will also post photos of our kitchen and see if I can dig up photos of the old one so you can compare the difference. The bad news is, we've decided to paint the entire house... which means more cleaning up and packing and another stint at living with my parents. This time I will keep updating the blog, it might not be about my adventures in my new kitchen but I will try to keep it food related.
Promise to keep in touch xx
