A week off

This week I decided to take off due to last week's incident resulting in a burned arm. Instead of cooking anything, I choose to give my body and my wallet a rest in making a new dish and instead thought I would share my musings of why I decided on a cooking blog. Like I believe I said in one of my first posts, I have about ten vegetarian cookbooks that I have acquired over the eight years I have been a vegetarian and so once I heard I needed to do a blog for class, I figured cooking would be the way to go. There were two obvious reasons why I made this choice for myself: I wanted to actually use the cookbooks that I have and I also love to cook. It helps me relax after a stressful day to bake some cookies, it's nice to create a meal for myself and my boyfriend or friends that everyone will enjoy. Now I'm no Martha Stewart or Julia Child but I have been able to hold my own in the kitchen for years without an issue until last week. I think being burned was a knock on the head so to speak in terms of some higher food-being saying "Hey Kendall, you're not invincible in the kitchen. If you lose focus, you can get hurt." And honestly, it was a wake-up call (a very painful one). So this week instead I am reflecting on my kitchen experiences and hopefully learning from them before I head back into the land of ovens and whisks, herbs and spices. So here is I guess what I have learned so far...cooking is great, but don't get cocky or you will get burned, literally.