Fat Kids Club and Foodies Unite!

The Reason

So Jen and I had a great idea that I think everyone, not just our immediate families will love because of the legacy we have received from both sides. I'm talking about the mutual undying love of delicious food that is practical and relatively simple to make... and even, on occasion, healthy! Even the title of this project reflects this fact that we love good food.

Family History Lesson

The following is a quick family history lesson for your reference and for the posterity. In our upbringing, a couple different terms were coined to describe basically the same thing: "Foodies" and honorary members of the "Fat Kids Club", or "FKC" for short. In several ways, they describe a lover of food-preparation, food-sharing, and, above all, food-consumption; an amateur aspiring gourmet who appreciates delicious and healthy food, but who also values time and lives on a budget, and therefore appreciates a quick and simple recipe for a Tuesday night; a person who glories in having created something that turned out so good, they're confident that, if tasted by others, they could win lasting friends solely on the shallow premise that they enjoy their cooking; someone who, when presented with food so sinfully tasty that, if untempered by wisdom and restraint, might be tempted to eat until sinking into a diabetic coma, or until you literally "become what you eat". (Please feel free to supplement these definitions with versions of your own).

Therefore, for this express purpose, we hereby create this blog. For the perfecting of the food, for the work of the kitchen, for the edifying of the body of our indulgences. We are here to proclaim that we love food and we are good at making it; and we want to share that love with the world.

The Rules

Here are the rules. You're all free and welcome to post your trusty recipes that have come through for you time and time again, as well as the new ones you've tried that turn out to be too good to keep to yourself. Feel free to show the blog to your extended family members, friends and coworkers. We want this to be a family thing so that we can all share and enjoy each others' family traditions, our experiences, our love for life, and our love for each other, through food!

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Please let us know because this is going to be a work-in-progress and we want everyone to add to it, use it, and enjoy it!

With love,

Daniel and Jen Mooney