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.
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