Rolling

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 | Bread, Food, Internet

Hey Internet, it is blog time. I have been fiddling with this particular web space for a while now. Unfortunately I also developed a nasty habit of accidentally deleting most of the content whole-sale while messing around with the code. I will do my very best to not do that anymore.

: Sourdough

My name is Jeremy. Jeremy or Jay is just fine. I’m a 20 year old Online Journalism / Public Advocacy Communication double major at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. I spent a number of years in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and made it all the way to Eagle Scout. Most of my hobbies are based around things I learned to do in my time as a scout. The rest of them have been inspired by the Internet and being jealous of other people and their hobbies. I am not sure how often this blog will be updated, though I will attempt to keep things regular.

In other news, I finally have some direction for BeanHat. In recent months I have developed a taste for bread making. In fact, a just bought a dough hook to go with my shiny new Kitchen Aid mixer. (The mixer was a gift. I am a poor college student.) The focus of this blog will be cooking. Probably baking to be more specific. An important note before we get started though; I am a hobbyist. I don’t really know what I am doing, but that seems like a silly reason to not do something. The lovely picture of what amounts to a hamburger bun off to the left is the result of my first attempt to make sourdough bread. I entered it into the “Hungry Scientist” contest over at Instructables, which netted me second prize. Expect an entry about that soon.

I expect that I will be uploading pictures of the breads I have made in the past and detailing my experiences. I will probably be doing any number of other food related things with this blog as well. I have made red beans and rice, gumbo and Chicken Parmesan in the past few months. Those will probably make appearances soon enough. For now though I will be outlining who I am, what I do and what to expect. Before I finish this post off and go about filling in the obliquity “About me…” page I will lay out what I will and will not be doing.

I will: be blogging my opinions and experiences. Any posts or images that appear on this blog are created and owned by, of course, me. Unless otherwise noted. I will be blogging about whatever comes to mind and doing so as honestly as I can afford. Any time I make an edit I will make note of it in the modified post. Comments, constructive criticism, money and food are certainly appreciated.

I will not: be doing anything that would compromise my integrity as a journalist. While this is a personal, informal blog, I am still (being) trained as a journalist. As such I do have a code of conduct that I will be following. No personal attacks, no unfounded rumors and no stealing or plagiarizing. I also do not expect anything out of this blog beyond my own personal gratification.

Most of this will be showing up in the “About Me” page soon enough.