Spring Alert

Yesterday being the first day of Spring has set my mind into a different thought pattern. I stopped thinking about stew and chili and now seem to be focusing more on salmon and quiche.
I'm working on the April features for the website and have some great ideas to start making recipes for.
Today, Steve (my husband of almost 2 years) and my brother are fishing for Spring Chinook and I'm so jealous. It's so nice today, perfect conditions for fishing and theres something about Spring Chinook that my tastebuds tingle for. Seriously, it's the best salmon ever. It doesn't taste like the salmon we get in the ocean in the late spring and early summer months. Steve thinks it's because they have more fat but I don't know for sure and personally don't care. All I know is they taste good and I like. I'm crossing my fingers for that fish today. I guess that Spring Chinook is going for $24 a pound at the fish markets here, can you believe it? How lucky am I to get to have fish brought home (crossing fingers still) that anyone else would pay an arm and a leg for! I feel the same way about razor clams. It's really hard to get the at restaurants because I make them perfectly the way I like them at home and they didn't coast $14 for 3 on a plate.
God, I love living in Oregon!
Being married to Steve has also given me this new found respect for my environment. He loves spending his days on a boat in the river or ocean, in the woods scouting for something, or on the beach digging for clams. I've had the opportunity to see parts of Oregon I would never have seen on my own. His passion for what he does inspires me. He's on the quiet side and almost prefers to be by himself and he doesn't like a lot of attention brought to him. We are opposite in almost every way. I think that's why it works.

e-stuff

I'm not sure why I started this blog because since I started Facebook I rarely go to Myspace and checking my email can seem to be time consuming. However, the website is my passion and apparently I need to keep updated on all this stuff. Oh, I forgot Twitter, I have a Twitter account. Now, I juggle a few jobs trying to pay bills, keep my head above water, and find time to market the website (aka:my passion) via Internet. I could see how just doing this could be a full time job. I want to keep it fresh and interesting and in order to bring new members to the site this is a must.
I'll get a groove, maybe manage my time better, but in the meantime I must complain about how hard it is. Heck, I was just talking to someone today about how we get all this computer stuff but we are just old enough to not be as savvy as the kids in their early 20's. I learned all about computers while playing The Oregon Trail game. The computer was huge and the screen was green and the shapes were yellowish...that's how I got started. Now, kids are twittering, downloading, ipoding, blogging, texting, and darn it, I'm starting to feel a little (just a tiny bit) old.
Poor me :(

First time for everything......

Today I decided to create my own blog. I was inspired by one of my friends Alisa Burke who also has a blog on blogspot. We both are held up by a creative backbone and even though she focuses on art and mixed media and I on food and my home, we get it.
It seemed like yesterday we were huddled into a booth for happy hour in Portland penciling out our future and how we were going to do wonderful things. It was so fun to toss ideas back and forth and "daydream" if you will. The great thing is we both are pretty much doing what we "daydreamed" so long ago.
Alisa has really focused hard on her craft (pun in tented) and I have happen fall into my passion by marriage. I never had such passion for anything until now. Every moment of every day I think about it. I have created a website called www.recipesfromthewild.com. It's a community based, recipe sharing website bringing people like me together. I guess I should probably elaborate on people like me.
Here goes.....I moved away from my home town of Cannon Beach at 17 and found my way back to the coast around 25. I never thought I would ever live here again but I guess some living, making wrong choices, and fine tuning myself as a person I have developed a great love for the Oregon coast and now can't really see myself anywhere else. I met my husband and we married in 2007. Oh, his name is Steve. He was born and raised in Gearhart Oregon and has a mild obsession with hunting and fishing. Oh, who am I kidding, it's a pretty major obsession.
So, we marry and he not only comes with an old black dog, a boat, but a freezer full of fish, elk, deer, etc. I have a culinary background and love to cook so cooking this stuff seems so easy, right? Well, it's not. The meat is very lean, the fish (especially sturgeon) can be tricky, and I'm tired of cooking razor clams the same way. I would sit at work and go online to find a recipe for dinner that night using the ground venison thawing in the fridge. This task should take a few minutes but there really aren't many websites dedicated to such things so I would search for hours to find the right recipe. I really shouldn't say that. There are plenty of websites geared towards wild game and fish but they don't look very pretty. I need to see pretty pages, and pretty words to stimulate my creativity in the kitchen. With all that said I created the website www.recipesfromthewild.com. It pretty much rocks and I'm really excited about it's future. I have decided to take it to the next level with a marketing company, facebook group, and shaking lots of hands and telling lots of people about it. I guess this blog is also another attempt to take it to the next level.