What is my blog about?

My name is Darlene. I am 22 and live in Ohio with my boyfriend and 2 cats. I love cooking, its my passion. About a year ago i decided to turn to making healthy meals from fresh food you can get at your local grocery store. I'm still in the early stages of my venture in life and cooking.

I did not grow up in a house with home cooked meals every day, in fact many times it was fast food or frozen meals. My mother was a single mother with a middle class job in the suburbs of Detroit, many times leaving the drive thru or microwave as the go to. Most of my basic cooking skills i learned were thanks to my grandmother, i swear she lived in the kitchen, when ever i was over there she always had something in the oven. My grandmother and her neighbor were both very good cooks and gardeners, everything was fresh, many times in the summer i was sent out to the garden to get fresh berries for homemade jam, beans for canning, tomatoes, corn and everything in between for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

About 3 years ago i moved to Ohio with my boyfriend for follow his job. I honestly though i knew how to cook until i was on my own with no one standing behind me telling me what to do next. I still remember my first dinner i cooked in my new apartment for us. A simple ranch coated chicken breast turned not so simple. Pulling it out of the oven it was pitch black, hard as a rock burned to a crisp, bless my boyfriend and his love of ketchup; he still ate it. From then on i set out to make myself the best cook i can be; reading blogs and magazines. 

I do not like cookbooks, i feel the are so impersonal in fact i only own one cook book from the 40's. My  cook book is a 3 ring binder i have filled with subject notebook paper i hand write recipes on. Every recipe in my book i have tried myself. I feed me and my boyfriend on about $100 a week making sure we are eating kinda healthy and fresh.

My lifestyle is not only fresh and easy but i also try to have fun. I love to run; which is a new found passion as of a few months ago. I am an avid beer and wine lover, i love tv and video games, cars, clothes, tea and flip flops. My blog is about all that and more.