Confused by Food Network

I was just looking for a recipe from Good Eats on the Food Network site and they have a quiz on fall food on the first page. It asks people to vote from the following choices as to what fall-friendly meal they will prepare this season:

Macaroni & cheese
Lasagna
Butternut squash soup
Roasted root vegetables
Casserole

There is no option for all of the above. Now, Fall, Autumn, whatever you call it, is three months long. It is not unreasonable to think that someone could make all of the above, more than once, during the season. This is the Food Network, after all. People who are on their site are interested in food and likely to cook. Why must I pick just one item? I make different forms of macaroni and cheese things every couple months. Just a few weeks ago, when I had some greens from my CSA, I did a version that had the greens in it. Casseroles? Super easy, quick meal. And roasted root vegetable? That is a good side for many meals. I just don't understand how a channel dedicated to food can think their audience will only make one of these items this season. Are their viewers only eating once every three months? In the 90 days of the season, even if someone doesn't cook all the time, they are going to have to cook a few times. I don't know...it just seems an odd question to me.

Busy, Busy

OK, really, I had planned on posting those pictures of the cake...way before now. Sadly, they will never get posted. My hard drive crashed. It was in the midst of dying and I replaced it but wasn't able to get everything off of it. I lost all my email, some MP3s, and the folder I had all my food pictures in. *sigh* I know I need to back up information and, while none of it is critical, it's sad and annoying to lose the information. Such is my week though. In the past week the timeclokc at work stopped working so, being that I do the payroll, I had to replace that. The first clock they sent didn't work right either. Neither did the new new clock. We finally figured out that all the templates from ADP they were trying to send to the clock must be corrupted so the HR rep and I have been working to re-enroll 130 people in the clock. One day last week our entire system at work was down for 4 hours, my tire on my car started leaking so I took it to be fixed. It turns out, the rim is cracked so I have to replace that. Now my hard drive died. I think I am jinxed. I am afraid to touch anything electronic for fear it will stop working.

I will post...I promise

I am planning on posting this week. I just made my parents a chocolate cake for their anniversary so I will post pictures later.

MIA

Ok, even though no one is reading this yet, I feel bad for not posting. Between work, school, a term paper and finals, I haven't had time. Now that I am done for the semester, I hope to get to posting on here, preferably with pictures of food.

I can chew!!

I haven't posted anything for a couple weeks, but no one is reading this yet. I had to get my wisdom teeth out, all 5 since I had an extra one, so I haven't been eating much lately. I can chew again now and am getting back to cooking. I did get a new mixer, a beautiful tangerine-colored, 5 Qt. KitchenAid Artisan mixer. *sigh* So pretty. I need to make something with it. Perhaps something for the next SHF?

Overkill or just a food obsession?

I freely admit to being a Food Network addict. It's not a bad addiction, as addictions go...it's just a time suck. On New Year's Day, I ended up watching the "Throwdown with Bobby Flay" marathon that was on there. Bobby Flay has a tendency to get on my nerves but he does make some tasty food. The marathon included shows about things such as doughnuts, pizza and Philly cheesesteaks and during every show I was like, "Oooo, I want that, ooo, I want that." The pizza show was the worst one for that. It had six different pizzas on it. I wanted them all so I decided I would make one this week. That one actually became two pizzas that I made, from scratch...dough and all. Keep in mind, I live alone so this was about 1 1/2 - 2 hours of cooking...for myself. I still can't decide which one I like better either. They were both too tasty. I made the Lemon pizza (sounds much weirder than it is, really) and the Roasted Red Pepper Tomato and Goat cheese pizza with Red Chili Oil. Oh yeah, I made the sauce for that one too, and let me tell you, I love my handheld stick blender for making sauces. So much easier than pouring bubbling hot tomato sauce in a blender.

For the crust, I used a recipe in a cookbook I have but if you make them, I think you could use any recipe you like. I really recommend either one of them. Now I just need to try the other four from the show sometime.

Really, though, is it bad to make two pizzas just for yourself? I promise I didn't sit down and eat both of them that night, I still have two pieces of the Lemon and one of the other left.

I am now entering the blogging world for the first time (so I'm a little behind the times). Most of the posts will be about food and cooking. I've spent the last couple months discovering food blogs and obsessively reading them. I decided that I could post about my love of cooking and experiments in the kitchen. So to anyone reading this, welcome!