Every year, around Christmas time, my mom would sit us down with a pencil and paper and tell us to write our New Year’s resolutions. They started out ambitious: Become a professional ice skater. Write Thank You Notes for Ewok doll, purple knickers, penny loafers. Lose weight.
They become more telling in my teenage years: Lose Weight. Find boyfriend.
As a young adult, they included the usual suspects: “Drink” dinner only once a week. Stop smoking. Lose weight.
Lately, they’re a bit more mature: Breathe more. Exercise more. Lose weight.
This year, I’m making a resolution to stop with all the dumb resolutions and maybe make a list of things I’d actually like to do in 2012 rather than the things I’m going to stop doing. Or punish myself for doing. Or hate myself because I haven’t done.
So here are my “I Can’t Wait to Do These” Food Resolutions for 2012.
- Finally naming the best burger in SoCo
- Doing my top 25 Restaurants (on haitus since 2009! Jees)
- Redesign BiteClub
- Spend more time at the farmer’s markets
- Have a kitchen garden
- Explore the entire menu at a restaurant I really like
- Take more trips to SF (Commonwealth)
- Take trips to Napa (French Laundry, Terra high on the list)
- Get to know more local producers
- Take more pictures
- Cook more
- Stop worrying about losing weight and actually enjoy eating.
What are your “resolutions” both food and otherwise for this year?
This year has contradicting “I can’t wait to do this year”s:
1. Travel more to other communities in the Bay Area and sample more restaurants;
2. Improve my cooking skills and restart cooking some of the really good things I used to make when I was younger now that I’m retired (that includes one of the best chocolate mouses ever);
3. Find my “Cheers”, where everybody knows my name, that has good food and stays around for a while but is still within my budget;
4. Control my intake of good food, especially on cruises;
5. Broaden the variety of things I make by actually using the recipes in the cookbooks I have and continue to buy;
and now the contradiction:
6. Loose at least 25 pounds.
I’m with you on the last one, Heather! Life is too short!
To make the permanent switch to a plant based diet!
Plant a fabulous vegetable garden, fruit tress, and make it a place I want to hang out.
Set up a kitchen that all cooks will enjoy using.
Eat only “added value” food that is nutritious (not necessarily un-delicious)!
Check out the farms and food in Santa Rosa.
eat more porchetta sandwich. lose weight.
Stop reading Bite Club
i want to eat at the “y” in 2012.
Eat more sausage!
Do everything in my power–which I admit probably isn’t very much–to eliminate the word “foodie” from our lexicon.
Enjoy as much fois as possible before April. I think that’s when we won’t be able to get it in CA.
I like them Heather and I’m totally on board, especially with the last one! Cheers!