Welcome to Culinary Explorer : 365 days of food!
While my intention for this blog from the beginning was to make a new recipe every day and blog about it for a year, life had other plans and it has evolved into more of a place I can come and post new recipes as I have time. I believe the saying “bit off more than I can chew” best describes my initial goal. As I mentioned, life got busy, we moved (twice) and our schedules have greatly changed since I first started this blog. I haven’t been making as many new recipes this past year, but I am ready to get back into things again, at least part-time. So for all the loyal followers that joined me in the beginning I thank you for your patience, and for all the new readers still finding my blog I hope you will stick around!
A bit about me… My name is Alicia, and Culinary Explorer has been my handle now for a long time on a wonderful recipe sharing site known as Food.com (formerly RecipeZaar). My husband’s name is Jeff, and together we have two amazing little boys, Perrin and Archer. Jeff and I are fairly adventurous when it comes to trying new foods…. or at least I make him try whatever I want lol…. but the kids are your typical picky children who refuse to eat much of what I make. I am forever on the lookout for new things I think they might like, and I guess I will have to keep looking until I find some, but in the meantime Jeff and I enjoy all the wonderful recipes I have come across, and those I have created myself.
I am a SAHM, but before I moved I also owned my own photography business called Alicia Welcome Photograpy (Children and Family Portraits). I have always enjoyed cooking/baking, and while realizing I also had a passion for photography after my first was born I found food photography. I remember back to the early days, when I was still very new to both, trying to new recipes and posting pictures of my end results on RecipeZaar, and I shudder a little at how bad they looked (and maybe tasted at times). However I have come a long way in both my culinary skills and my photography and I am happy to share those efforts with all of you. On this blog you will find everything from the healthy and natural to the comforting and indulgent, and as I said before, I hope you will stick around and see what I make next!
I’m impressed at your goal. A post a day is really something. I’ve just started blogging and now the time it takes even for the most simple post. Good luck and keep it up.
Best wishes as well on the healthy choices. That has been my motto lately. I wish you and your family the very best.
Thank you! It really is a commitment for sure, but it has been good for me so far.
I am also interested in writing culinary things. But I could not know how. I feel you are my inspiration if I write anything about this. Great blog indeed.
Love your blog! Great pictures and recipes!
Thank you!