It’s way too easy to get caught up in a project and forget why you ever started it in the first place.
Take blogging.
You start a blog about cooking because you really like to cook. Then you become some weirdo who risks eating lukewarm pasta because you just really, really want to shoot a good pic for your website. You start being a little crazy about numbers, checking your site’s analytics 5 times a day to see how many hits you’ve gotten. You set up an adsense account, make 2 bucks, and think you’re going to take over the world. You make a really delicious onion soup and you almost don’t share it with your readers because you haven’t reinvented the wheel.
Like I said, it’s easy to get lost. Also, it’s easy to get crazy.
I don’t want to be nuts though. I just want something good for dinner and I want to share it with you. Sometimes I make stuff up. Sometimes I’m revolutionary (uh…), other times classics are where it’s at.
Tonight, it’s all about a classic: French Onion Soup. You know it, you love it. How couldn’t you? It’s covered in melty Gruyere. Caramelized onions. Cognac! Soul-warming broth. It’s a bowl of hugs, afghans, mommies, fuzzy slippers, good memories. Nothing new, but nothing you’ll ever tire of.
