The kitchen is open, again

Blue Kitchen has moved! After a long time planning, a few weeks of wrestling with code and more than a couple of major panic attacks, here I finally am.

And here you are! Welcome. You’ll find some new things here, but let’s start with what’s the same. It’s still me in the kitchen, with Marion occasionally filling in and making something wonderful. As always, you’ll find at least one new recipe each week, complete with the often convoluted stories they seem to inspire. All the old recipes are here too. You can find them in the Search box [as always] or in the Archives, which—okay, here’s something new—have a tab and page of their own now, up at the top.

So what else is new? Well, take a look to the right. There are now two sidebar columns with more links and resources for home cooks. Besides my blogroll of great cooks and entertaining writers, you’ll find expanded resources like links to online food magazines. You’ll also find a new section of links called Wine and Drink: Blogs and Resources. I’ve just gotten started here—this list will grow. As will the whole new site.

And each week, you’ll find two posts instead of one. I’ll start with a recipe post, of course. Most of you are here for the food. But directly below it, you’ll find another story, usually related to food, drink, health and other life matters. Sometimes, though, I may take off on some wildly divergent tangent.

So what’s missing? I’ve reluctantly pulled the plug on my two sidebar blogs, WTF? Random food for thought and What’s on the kitchen boombox? As much as I loved writing them, they just never got the kind of readership that warranted keeping them going. The second weekly post I mentioned above will pretty much take the place of WTF?, although in a more food-focused, less random sort of way. And every once in a while, when the right piece of music catches my ear, the kitchen boombox will turn up there. In the meantime, for the 2.3 loyal fans of these dear departed blogs, I’ve not deleted them. You’ll find links to them over to the right too.

So now what? Keep coming back. Bookmark this new site. Subscribe for RSS feeds or email updates. And watch for future tweaks and refinements—I’m just getting warmed up.

Photo credit: Walker Evans, Roadside stand near Birmingham, Alabama. 1936.