Back for the last time...

Seriously.  Maybe.

Ya know, I've been lazy for a while.  And my passion for food has really come and gone over the past few months.  Don't get me wrong; I never stopped loving anything about food--neither cooking it nor eating it.  But I got busy with this election of this guy for most of last year (you may have heard of him; he spoke to Congress a couple nights ago), spent a month on a runoff election in Atlanta, went to Mexico on vacation, went to Atlanta on vacation, went through a couple of roommates, and...well, then I just got lazy.

So I'm wrong--it had nothing to do with my passion for food.  It had everything to do with my impatience to go find my camera and take pictures on the few(er) occasions I made something worth capturing.

There's something really sad about this blog.  For the last two years, I've really grown in Food, and I haven't let this blog grow with me.  I think it would have been an interesting story to tell you (Mom) how I went from my first post about Nachos or something (dude, they're still reallllly good) to last night's Roast Cornish Hen with Plum Sherry Glaze over Butter Poached Cippolini Onions and Sum Choy.

Which reminds me.  Simplicity just doesn't feel like the most appropriate name any more.  Yes, I still like simple food, and I probably won't be doing much sous vide or wildly eclectic cuisine anytime soon.  But if I'm writing for anyone that's not doing this sort of cooking, Simplicity as a title seems at best inappropriate, at worst condescending.

So I'm changing it.

Which reminds me.

Until now, this blog has been entirely about food.  And to me it's always been just a bit....incomplete.  Perhaps it's why I've strayed so much.   To be clear, it was by design.  This blog was initially just a repository to keep me from totally forgetting about successful nights in the kitchen.  But now, I'd like something more.  I'd like the freedom to rant about politics or rave about a good movie or talk about anything else I darn well please.  But mostly I just want to rant about politics.  I want my two competing loves to live right here together, on this blog.

So today, I retire Simplicity and relaunch it as Politics and Peppercorns.

Shutup.  It'll grow on you.