For the LOVE of cooking.

Sometimes I think I should have been born in the 1800's-early 1900's. I love to be a homemaker, do they even use that word anymore. I was introduced to this word when I moved to Fancy Farm when I was 3. They are the women in the community who know everything. They know the cure for every ail and know how to put the best meal on the table. When I was little I didn't exactly aspire to be them, I wanted to work in corporate America or DC and be someone "important". Now that I have grown a little older, I would give anything to be one of the homemakers. I never realized how much these women are the backbone of our community and communities around the country. They are such amazing women and have so much knowledge to share. Every time I go home I find myself finding one of these women in the community and asking them how to make something. Like, how do they get the meringue on those amazing pies so high, and how in the world do you make that amazing fried chicken that ends up on the table every Sunday?

Another one of my biggest influences has to be my Grandpa. He was a cook in the Army during the Korean War and when he came home he worked for a company that produced commercial cooking equipment. His dream was to always open his own candy store (the evidence is in the basement here..haha). He had all the equipment, recipes, and tasting staff he could ask for. What I always wondered was why he never did it? What was it about the dream that scared him away from actually opening the store? Every Christmas he would always spend hours upon hours in the basement making his goodies and giving them to all of us grandchildren and to our family. He had 11 brothers and sisters and my grandma had 7 brothers and sisters so he had a ton of goodies to make. It always gave me a sense of pride when I would head home to Western Kentucky and all of the family there wanted the springles and peanut brittle.


I started this blog, well to be honest I really don't know why I started the blog. But since I have started it I have taken all my loves and combined them in this one place, the only problem is that my loves are all over the board. I love crafts, sewing, baking, cooking, photography,photo editing, interior designing, graphic design, and probably the most important to me is agriculture. I would not be where I am today without cows, dirt, tobacco, corn, soybeans, horses, and my step-dad. All these things embedded a sense of simplicity to my life that I never thought I would have.

All of these influences of my life have gotten me to cook and bake more and to share it with people. This past week I cooked some of The Machine Shed's Giant Cinnamon Rolls, to say they were a success would be an understatement since they were gone in a few hours (I live by myself so I had to take them places). Here are a few of the pictures that I had and hope you enjoy. :-)



This was while they were cooking, I couldn't wait to get them out and actually took them out too early, I had to put them back in for a little while. :-(



These were so delicious and I can't wait to have someone, besides myself, to make them for! I have a feeling my brother will want some next weekend since he called me asking for them last night.