...and we're back!

I know it's been awhile folks, but I'm back! Or at least I'm back for the day... we'll see how it goes.

In case you are wondering what I've been up to (which is unlikely since by the nature of you reading this you are probably my mom), I've been busy having a kid and working my butt off in my career. Needless to say, blogging about food has taken a back seat.  But today I realized that although my food adventuring has changed a bit, from most people's perspective my daily cooking and eating is still somewhat noteworthy, or at least humorous to read about.

Embarking on his own food adventures

For starters, I now have offspring that I have to feed. And since like all parents I care very much about his health and well being, I spend a lot of time thinking about what to feed him. I have exclusively breastfed my son (i.e. no formula) for many reasons, none of which do I need to go into here, but he's now 7 months old and eats solid food as well. Since I know slightly more than nothing about feeding an infant, you can imagine I've had to educate myself a bit on nutrition for babies (did you know infants don't actually have the enzymes to digest rice cereal until they are at least a year old?) and what foods are best for feeding my little parasite darling. Of course, there is also the careful balancing of trusting my gut, sorting through nutrition nazi blogs, listening to very strong opinions about breastfeeding your nursling through their college years (kidding), and generally deciding what advice you want to keep and what to ignore.  This parenthood shit is no joke. 

The other adventure I embark on weekly (with Mr. Food Adventurer's help of course) is figuring out what to do with our mountain of local organic produce that we get through our CSA. This is our fourth summer as a member of a CSA, but this year we're trying a new one that is quite small and in it's early stages, thus we are building a very personal relationship with our farmer (as in, we text. And he's seen our kitchen. And met our dog.). We get a large volume of beautiful tasty produce every week, most of which we either have no clue what to do with or we've had it a hundred times and need to innovate.

These two challenges are what inspired me to post again today; I work hard at feeding myself and my family and though I am certainly not one to be doling out advice, perhaps my experiences might help someone out there facing similar challenges. And if not, maybe I can entertain someone. And if that fails too, at least I have a reason to use my new expensive camera every now and then. 

Enjoy!