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Greetings!

This blog is meant to be about my various escapades and misadventures in the kitchen, whether it has to do with cooking, cookware, kitchen hardware, cutlery, recipes, or just frustrations about being an amateur foodie and a bit of a gearhead. I should introduce myself first.

Hi. I'm Kimberle.

Now that the formalities are over, let's talk about my intentions here. "Young lady, what are your intentions towards my son-- er, this blog??" Well, as I mentioned above, I'm a bit of a kitchen nut, an amateur foodie, and a slight gearhead. I should specify, however, about gear. I'm talking mostly about cutlery and cookware, though I do love my Kitchen Aid stand mixers.

Because of my current projects, you'll likely hear more about cast iron than anything else, and about my crappy stove. I'll be going into some details about the ups and downs of seasoning, reconditioning, and using cast iron on a crappy mini stove in a small apartment in northern Chicago. What a pain. The bulk of my time in the next few entries will be spent on this specifically, as I have been asked about them by a number of people, and so there will be a lot of catching up for them as to why I began this current cast iron project and the lessons I'm learning from it.

For now, this should tell you enough to decide if you want to spend a small part of your day reading my entries. I am not sure about my update schedule just yet, most of it depends on work, but I will try, at the very least, to not leave this blog without 1 post per week. If I slack off, I'm sure someone will hit me and get me back in the swing of things.

For now, I bid you good morning!