Food Blog

Welcome to the KIPlog Foodblog, an experiment in food, photography and weblogging. I plan to do a fair amount of experimentation here in all three areas so please ignore the mess.

The first experiment is with food. My plan is to buy, cook and eat the best I can while still being affordable. I’m a true omnivore, so you’ll see just about everything here. I intend to document the best food and the best deals in Chicagoland food shopping. The recipes you’ll see here will mostly be experiments, since I’ll be trying very new things. I’ll try to be honest about what doesn’t work and why.

The second experiment is with photography. I’m going to attempt to document the process and the results. I’ll be touching on techniques if I learn something. All the photos on this site are mine.

I should note that I’m not a professional in either of these first two areas, although I have been at some point in the past.

The third experiment is in weblogging. For close to 3 years, I’ve run KIPlog, a weblog about things on and about the Web. I’ve done it by hand, without the use of a content management system. This Foodblog will run Movable Type, an amazing, free system for managing a blog. While I’ve played other Content Management Systems, and set them up for clients, I’ve never attempted to run my blog with them. Somehow it’s kind of like using some sort of fancy kitchen mixer to replace the job you used to get your hands greasy doing. I’ll have to get used to it. Also MT allows me to let you, the reader, add to the info presented here. The archiving and categorization features of MT are also going to be useful. I just have to figure all these features out. There’s a lot to learn, and there’s a lot to do on this page. I haven’t even come up with a catchy name yet, and while Foodblog isn’t very original, it’s exactly what it is and I’ll use it for now. I could have waited until the page was perfect, but the food comes first. (I’ve checked the layout so at least it doesn’t horribly fall apart in most browsers, but let me know if you see anything really busted.

I’ve posted a few recipes below to literally and figuratively wet your appettite.