Post #1

Well i finally got around to creating this blog. After several months of thinking a cooking blog would be a fun past-time, and weeks of putting it off until my schedule cleared up, its finally on the web! Thank you to Laura Landry for providing the creative title, she graciously saved us from a number of stupid blog name ideas.

For a little background: Isabelle and I are both seniors at James Madison University. Soon after moving into our house in downtown Harrisonburg last fall, Isabelle and I quickly bonded over our shared love for cooking and eating. We would spend our time pouring through magazines and cookbooks in search of new recipes.  We had plans of cooking together weekly but the reality of classes, tests, papers, and other such distractions soon set in and we found ourselves spending less and less time in the kitchen. I was so looking forward to the summer when i would finally have time to enjoy the simple things in life like reading a book for fun; painting my nails; digging in the dirt, excavating 30lb rocks, hauling buckets of clay, sweating out of every pore in my body (I will share more about my gardening adventures later) and of course cooking! Now that summer "vacation" has arrived Isabelle and I find ourselves as busy as ever. So i decided i was going to buckle down and publish this blog, darn it,  before the summer ends and we haven't cooked diddly-squat!

The main purpose of "Two Peas in a Pot" is to motivate us to spend more time in the kitchen, to keep a record of our favorite recipes and share them with our family and friends, to learn more about cooking, but mainly just because it gives us an excuse to eat!

We have plans to make dinner sometime this coming week, so hopefully we will have our first recipe up by this time next week!