Hello everybody, it’s been a pair years since my final weblog submit. On this time I’ve usually meant to come back again to Weblog. There have been 100+ accomplished and photographed recipes that by no means made it into the ultimate model of my final cookbook (The Heritage Cookbook), and I at all times deliberate on trickling out each the rejected and 300+ printed dishes right here on the web site ultimately.
However issues are completely different now. We moved again to Hawaii in late 2019, proper after releasing The Heritage Cookbook. The method of making that e book took quite a bit out of me. I spent years working at a breakneck tempo to ship the manuscript to my writer, solely to seek out that they had been not all in favour of publishing it within the method we had agreed upon. After a yr of revisions and rejections, I made a decision to self-publish as an alternative, to keep up the imaginative and prescient that motivated me to jot down this very private tome within the first place. I’m supremely happy with the ultimate product, particularly these few bodily copies that made it to print, however I believe part of me at all times knew that it will be my final cookbook.
So once we returned to Hawaii, it was time for a clear break. I gifted away all of my images tools earlier than shifting, and logged off my social media accounts. Quickly after, the pandemic hit, and like with most others I discovered myself with plenty of calendar area. If ever there was a time to fall again in love with meals running a blog, that will have been it. As a substitute, I printed an outdated recipe or two, baked plenty of sourdough, recorded some music, and began on a novel (which continues to be within the works, however removed from prepared).
In some unspecified time in the future I ended being so productive with my time, and fell right into a rut of catching up on films and video video games. As one does. From that interval I emerged with a brand new ardour, to play my favourite traditional video games however on fashionable tools. And it turns on the market weren’t plenty of good tutorials on the topic on the market, so I took up the problem. In any case, writing tech guides is similar to writing recipes. I began a brand new web site, which ultimately led to a YouTube channel, and right here I’m a pair years later doing this as my full-time job (I retired from the navy earlier this yr, what a wild experience that was). I’m having fun with the expertise immensely.
Actually, the purpose of this submit right here is to come back to phrases with the truth that I’m possible not coming again to Weblog. I’m very grateful for my expertise with this web site, and the friendships I made alongside the best way. Satirically, I created Weblog in 2010 as a distraction when my outdated gaming weblog had ran its personal course; it’s now time to confess that I’m absolutely again in my roots with this new mission, and it leaves me with little room to additionally preserve this meals weblog.
I’ll maintain the lights on right here for the foreseeable future, so that you’ll be capable of entry all of your favourite recipes for years to come back. And who is aware of, perhaps I’ll get the itch once more and submit some dishes now and again. Within the meantime, be at liberty to drop a line and let me understand how you’re doing.
Take care,
Russ
