Welcoming fall

Well hello there, long time no see. My last post was ages ago, in February. Since that time we survived a long, cold winter (especially for North Carolina) and an equally brutal summer. And already it is time to celebrate the arrival of fall. I always become nostalgic during this time. The smells of the season, the falling leaves, they make me sentimental and ever so aware of the cycles of life. The colors and the smells that appear during this time make these things tolerable and beautiful and so any sadness is engulfed by beauty and hope.

But enough of the sentimentality. Fall is also a great time to begin to think about food and cooking again. Because it's now that the days become shorter, the temperatures begin to drop in the evenings, and I want nothing more than to smell spicy warm bubbles emanating from my kitchen. And it is with these thoughts that I resolve to cook more this season and to post more! Because I realized that this blog is a wonderful way for me to catalog the flavors and events of the seasons. Well I guess I missed most of the winter and all of the summer of 2010. Hopefully I will manage to preserve some of fall 2010. And with that I leave you with some food images from these past few months. Until next time!