Fun Fearless Foodie

I can hardly believe it, but it has been ONE WHOLE YEAR since I started Fun Fearless Foodie and I am so thankful to those of you who have been reading about my foodie adventures and supporting me over the last year.  I started this blog at the end of last summer as a result of being sidelined by foot surgery and desperate for a creative outlet to channel my pent up energy. At first it was an innocent hobby and a place to share my kitchen adventures as I experimented with food and recipes, but it quickly turned into a passion that had me wishing it could be my full-time job.

Like a lot of people, I was struggling to find purpose and enjoyment in my day to day work (at the time a HR professional) and was coming to terms with the notion that the rest of my life could very well be stressful and unfulfilling.  I had been dreaming about dropping it all and going to culinary school, going so far as to researching schools, loans, etc. just to toy with the idea but always found a reason to talk myself out of it. I mean who walks away from a good-paying job with the security of a familiar city, friends, and family to take a selfish leap into a new career?  As life would have it, I reached a turning point in my personal life that gave me the opportunity to step outside of myself and think about what I really wanted and what was holding me back from getting it.  It turns out that once I found an answer for every reason not to, making the decision to quit my job, apply to culinary school, and move my life to New York City was the easiest choice I ever made.

If you would have told me a year ago when I started this blog that today I would be living in one of the most exciting cities in the world, attending one of the country’s best culinary schools, interning at the Food Network, meeting incredible chef’s, and living my life as a full-time foodie I would have laughed.  The past four months have been the best of my life and hopefully will only get better.  This blog has given me a purpose and direction in life that has taken me on an incredible journey.  My passion for food and sharing my experiences with others is what keeps me going, I absolutely love to educate people about food and how cooking can be an easy and important part of their life.  Of course I need to turn this passion into a paying career, but as scary as being a student and intern again is, something tells me that my dedication will lead me to good things.

So thank you to those of who you have been reading and following me on this journey, I hope you have learned something new about cooking and a flame, even a small one, has been lighted to get or keep you in the kitchen.  And if I can give any kind of non-cooking related advice it would be to remember that life’s journey is what you make of it. If there is something you’ve always wanted to do, do it.  I know changes like this aren’t easy and sometimes take time, but life is too short to spend it doing something you don’t like.  When you really stop and think about it, the change you’ve always wanted might be easier than you think.

Bon appetit!