My first time....

So here goes, my first foray into blogging. I decided to write a blog about food because it's really the only thing that I always have something to say about. Plus, I figure establishing myself as a food blogger is my best chance at someday achieving my dream of being a guest judge on Top Chef or Iron Chef (fingers crossed that the secret ingredient is chocolate!). Since I doubt Food & Wine is going to hire a noob with no journalistic experience (save for my stints on my high school and college newspapers) and I'm way too lazy to go to culinary school and work my way up the chef food chain in order to get invited, this is my best bet. I'm also way more passionate about eating food than I am about actually cooking it; which is why I watch Food Network constantly, yet cook rarely.

The boyfriend is out of town for a few days, so I have a lot of time on my hands and a productive mindset. I went to See's candy today for the first time to buy some molasses chips for the bf. I'm usually partial to Ethel M here in Vegas, but we saw a piece about these molasses candies on Unwrapped and the bf started saying they are the best candy ever. I have little faith in his taste in candy, since he is devoted to Skittles and doesn't really like chocolate (I'm not sure how we are still together), but I happened to drive by See's and thought I'd check it out. I haven't opened the box yet since they are kind of for him, but I got a dark chocolate truffle with chocolate chips for myself for the meantime, and in case the molasses chips suck.

I'm on a self-imposed health-kick for the next few days, so I probably won't have any good meals to report on. I'm contemplating doing some baking though, so we'll see if I work up the motivation to do that. I've been craving these cupcake cones my mom used to make for us as kids. My sister and I were just discussing ways to get the frosting down to the bottom of the cone, so that every bite includes some icing and not just the part on top. That's probably why I dreamt about cupcakes and icing a cake last night. I think I might need an intervention....