Hello and Welcome!

For my first trick I would like to introduce myself... I am Lia (pron. lee-uh),I am currently 18 years old and an art student. I am by all accounts a terrible cook, a mediocre artists and a truly horrible badminton player. However, I do severely enjoy all of the above and it is my intention to use this blog to drive myself onward in my quest to improve dramatically at the things that I love.

Obviously blah blah blah every ones 'watching their weight' and frantically trying to lose it, frankly, I'm a big fan of the days when fat was cool because it meant you were rich enough to afford food. Also, having done some research into beloved burlesque dancing (dancing of any sort being another thing id love to improve...) and found that in Victorian times, the showgirls would actually pad out their thighs and arms to look bigger! *swoons* my kind of living...

I think I'll deal with the most tangible topic on my improvements list which is cooking! I have made so many disastrous cakes- loving gestures all of which have been laughed off stage by friends and loved ones. Yet still I refuse to be bitter, and having made my boyfriend sit through a full five hour session of 'Come Dine With Me' to really inspire myself, I set about aspiring to cook at least something that I wouldn't be embarrassed by if I ever had to entertain....

However, life is made more difficult by my closest living guinea pigs having a) a gluten allergy, caffeine allergy and chocolate allergy (enter; my mother) or b) an incredibly vast sweet tooth, a strict hatred for vegetables and a severe case of the 'too nice' virus making honest criticism almost impossible (my boyfriend-Rick). To make things even more difficult/interesting, I have recently made the decision to become a pescetarian (not a real vegetarian because I love sea food). it wasn't entirely of my own free will, it really has been a case of every meat product I've eaten recently making me very very ill.

So my mission for now, should I choose to accept it (which I have) is to produce food which in a perfect world must be:
Edible
Delicious
Repeatable by me
Repeatable by others

This means that all of you lucky people will get to recreate the magic of my cooking by following any successful recipes in your own time, and any of my friends may be selected at random to volunteer themselves as victims for my tasting sessions.Wish me luck!meow for now (cat lover in case you were wondering)
xoxoxoxox Lia xoxoxoxoxoxox