Where it all started for me.
November 4th, 2005 I was in Baghdad and on my way to my life being forever changed. I was an army medic with the 3rd infantry division at the time and had been in country for roughly 11 months already and looking forward to getting home. That day did not turn out how I could have ever expected it. My deployment was cut short that day and the lives of two of my closest friends were cut short and I didn't know how I would learn to handle it.
When I got back to Fort Stewart it took some time for me to even talk to people without an overwhelming urge to blow up on them for the smallest of things. With that being said having a short fuse and working in a job where pretty much everyone is your superior day to day wasn't easy. I did not show up many days to work almost out of self preservation, knowing it was easier to bullshit my way out of not going to formation than it was to explain why I told a staff officer every profanity I could think of to describe their competence.
It started with photography for me as a way to get out and away from everyone and just do something to clear my mind. I went out and bought a camera way too expensive for the lack of talent I had and started to learn. The training grounds of Ft Stewart and Savannah were full of places that were calming to me. I could just get lost in the beauty of everything around me and just be there in that moment for a while.
Now living in the low country of the area surrounding Savannah there was a whole lot of options for food. Lets be honest here we all know you don't join the military to make millions of dollars. Most of the junior enlisted soldiers make enough money for a couple good meals a month and cheap beer on the regular. So I had to learn to cook so I didn't live on ramen noodles and random promotion party left overs.
It was not easy... I burned so much food
But after burning potatoes and throwing the whole pan in the dumpster and the hundreds of other items I ruined, it got easier. The food started to turn out good and even other people thought so! I started posting myself cooking on snapchat as a joke to my friends in a apron with only shorts on as a joke. They liked it. I have had more and more people ask me for more videos and recipes and instead of handing out boring copies of my recipes that I've developed over the years I figured I would blog and post them on my youtube channel.
So that brings us to the here and now, right now I have this single blog but here at home I do have a couple cameras and some nice tools to cook food with. So I will post the recipes here and link the videos on cooking the good stuff. So sign up and get notified when I post new recipes and videos about the food. Not every recipe will have a video and not every video will be about food. Although I can assure you that you will be at least slightly entertained every time. Now I have to pick the first recipe, which is always the hardest part.
When I got back to Fort Stewart it took some time for me to even talk to people without an overwhelming urge to blow up on them for the smallest of things. With that being said having a short fuse and working in a job where pretty much everyone is your superior day to day wasn't easy. I did not show up many days to work almost out of self preservation, knowing it was easier to bullshit my way out of not going to formation than it was to explain why I told a staff officer every profanity I could think of to describe their competence.
Now living in the low country of the area surrounding Savannah there was a whole lot of options for food. Lets be honest here we all know you don't join the military to make millions of dollars. Most of the junior enlisted soldiers make enough money for a couple good meals a month and cheap beer on the regular. So I had to learn to cook so I didn't live on ramen noodles and random promotion party left overs.
It was not easy... I burned so much food
But after burning potatoes and throwing the whole pan in the dumpster and the hundreds of other items I ruined, it got easier. The food started to turn out good and even other people thought so! I started posting myself cooking on snapchat as a joke to my friends in a apron with only shorts on as a joke. They liked it. I have had more and more people ask me for more videos and recipes and instead of handing out boring copies of my recipes that I've developed over the years I figured I would blog and post them on my youtube channel.
So that brings us to the here and now, right now I have this single blog but here at home I do have a couple cameras and some nice tools to cook food with. So I will post the recipes here and link the videos on cooking the good stuff. So sign up and get notified when I post new recipes and videos about the food. Not every recipe will have a video and not every video will be about food. Although I can assure you that you will be at least slightly entertained every time. Now I have to pick the first recipe, which is always the hardest part.
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