hello mr. zebra

Last week my sister and I began toying with the notion of having a blog on our baking adventures. I say adventures because I am .. not very good in the kitchen at all and my sister is equally a novice. Each of us has many fine points, but making fabulous things in the kitchen is not one of them. So we decided to change this.

For the most part in our life when change has been known to readily occur, Tori Amos's music has been there to shoulder us through it. And that applies for both good and bad changes that just go along with life. We both agree that through Tori Amos, we have found our own voices.



Often times, I feel like I stayed out of the kitchen for so long because it was expected for me to be in the kitchen. The same way it is for most women in a male-dominated world. Women are expected to do domestic duties that are supposedly tailored to their gender. Anyone with enough sense will tell you that a man can stay home and cook and clean while a woman goes to work and makes the household income just as easily.



I guess what all this rambling lead to is that this is us tackling the kitchen for us, because we want to take up a new skill. Not to be able to cook my future prospective husband a meal. And I think I'm ready to see the kitchen as something to be embraced rather than hated. It's not the kitchen's fault that we live in an extremely patriarchal society.



We're going to bake something new each week in an effort to actually get better at this whole cooking and baking things. It has been decided that we will focus more on baking, than actual cooking.