Today we're celebrating Wilde in the Kitchen's second birthday! It's hard to believe that just over two years ago I was talking with my friends, trying to decide on a name for my blog. I had fallen for the food blogging world and wanted to join in on the fun. I had no idea where this little place on the internet would take me.
Over the past two years I have gone through more pounds of sugar than I had in the previous twenty-eight years...
I have learned that nothing is out of reach in your home kitchen...
This past year seemed to be the year of the salad...
So much has changed in my life in the past two years as well. The blog originated in Boulder, Colorado, in my mountainview apartment. The kitchen was a mere two weeks away from getting packed up and shipped to New Haven, Connecticut. The cooking tools available to me were simple and low tech, a whisk or two, a small kitchen scale and a demonic hand mixer.
When the boxes labeled "kitchen" were piled in my brand new, New Haven apartment, their contents overflowed the studios kitchen space. With only 350 square feet to my name, the cooking and baking supplies took over every free space they could find. The Sundays that I spent cooking there were some of the busiest times in my apartment, preparing all of my meals and treats for the week.
Around this time last year I made my most recent and most important move. I got my first real-world job and moved to New Jersey to live with boyfriend. With my new, much larger kitchen, normalized work hours and second human being to feed, WITK started to become more well rounded and offer more dinners and savory options, but still maintaining the occasional sweet post.
My life and this site have changed so much over the past two years, who knows where it will be in two years more! I'm mostly grateful for everyone out there who stops by to say hi, comment on a post or try out one of my recipes. The food-blogging community that I'm a part of is a huge reason behind why I keep going. Of course I love writing, baking and cooking, but I seriously love the interaction with my like-minded foodies out there in the interwebs.
Thank you all for making this such a fun place for me come every week. To celebrate WITK's two year, I made us all a cake! Three layers of cloud-soft sponge cake, filled with sweet caramel frosting and coated in a rich chocolate glaze. It's like a giant piece of Buffalo sponge candy. Perfectly appropriate for WITK's birthday. Have a great weekend everyone and thanks for the fun! Here's to a fulfilling, savory, exciting and sweet next year!