Our Mission Begins...

Our mission began with one simple movie, Julie & Julia. Have you seen it? NO?!? Go rent it NOW! Better yet, buy it. You will want to watch it over and over! Meryl Streep and her award-winning performance inspired us to do our own version of Julie & Julia.

In Julie & Julia, Julie sets out to conquer Julia Child's The Art of French Cooking. She made something like 500 recipes in 365 days. Needless to say, we aren't quite that ambitious. We want to cook some recipes from cookbooks we like and see how it goes. Here's what you can expect from us:

• We will cook at least 3 meals a week from the 3 cookbooks we've chosen.
• We will post pictures, tips, tricks, reviews, etc.
• We will do our best to inform and entertain you.
• We will even switch things up occasionally by letting you read posts from guest chefs and/or faithful followers.

You won't find any fussy recipes here...nothing with names that are hard to pronounce or ingredients you can't find at your local grocery store. We are going to cook simple recipes even our picky eaters will eat! We definitely won't be cooking things that stick out from Julie & Julia...beef gelatin, anyone? Steamed lobster...nope!

We aren't taking this mission lightly. Although we fancy ourselves chefs, we have no real cooking talent. Our food is edible (and we know this because we force our kids to eat it), but we find we make the same meals over and over. We are ready for some variety!

Soon we'll let you know a little about the cookbooks we chose after exhaustive Internet and bookstore research! :) I know it will be difficult to wait, but you have no choice. ;)

Now, let's all gather around for our sign off. Come closer...we won't bite! Put your hands on top of ours in the center of our huddle. On the count of three, say "Start Cookin'!"

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"Start Cookin'!"