Hi everyone.  My name is Erin Crispin and if you had told my husband that I was going to guest posting on a cooking blog when we first got married, I think he would have laughed (let’s ignore the fact that blogs did not exist when we got married).  In other words: I was a terrible cook.  I had never really done it growing up and did not do it much in college.  So getting married straight out of college and having a husband who was a professional basketball player to cook for, was incredibly intimidating.  It was not pretty, but over the years I have collected recipes from family members and online resources and tried and failed many times.  It has been a process and here are my current cooking goals:

1. I want it to be simple.

2. I want it to be as healthy as possible by trying to avoid pre-packaged ingredients.

3. I am trying to use as little dairy as possible.  We are trying to eliminate it in our home slowly, so many of my recipes will either be of dairy-free foods or substituting dairy with other ingredients.  There are some yummy treats you just can’t substitute though, so you will get those too.

4. I cook overseas for the majority of the year, so the ingredients I use are often simple and easy to find.

5. I want it to satisfy the 5 mouths I am currently feeding in our home (soon to be 6 when our 8-month-old is big enough to join us at the table).  One of my biggest challenges is combining this goal with goal #2.

I look forward to blogging here twice a month and hopefully sharing a recipe that could become a family favorite of yours.