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Sustaining the Powers

Tales From My Test Kitchen

Welcome to Sustaining the Powers!

October 11, 2013 by Steph Powers Leave a Comment

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Thanks for stopping by to check me out!  I hope you stay a while. and come back as I add more recipes.  Feel free to make requests in the comments below.  

You’re probably wondering why I decided to start a food blog.  Well, there’s many reasons but the top 5 are:

    1. I love cooking.  Growing up, we always came together around the dinner table each night and my mom always encouraged us to help out or take responsibility for family dinner once a week. This stuck with me and now that I have my own place and family I still love hosting family-style dinners for our friends. Cooking is my unwind. 
    2. I love experimenting with flavors and new ingredients.  Sometimes our kitchen looks like an episode of Chopped where I end up throwing random ingredients together into something never seen before.  Other times I take existing recipes and make crazy substitutions based on what I have on hand.  
    3. I enjoy photography.  I’m definitely a hobbyist photographer, but food blogging will give me a place to practice my photography on a regular basis and hopefully learn and grow a lot more.
    4. I enjoy writing.  I blogged my summer trip to Italy and Spain and found that I really liked writing on a regular basis.  It’s a great creative outlet for me and I think others enjoyed reading it.  
    5. I love sharing with others.  In Fort Collins I used to have a weekly girls night where I’d teach a new recipe to some of my newly-married friends. We had such a blast! I have also regularly posted photos on Facebook and been asked to share the recipes.  This gives me a more formal platform to share our family favorites (and those who kept suggesting it can stop bugging me to start a blog now.)

What’s my goal with this blog you ask?  I want to empower and inspire others in the kitchen and their homes. I want to document and share my food ideas and recipes with others and also talk a bit about what else sustains our family – our faith, our home organization, our budget and shopping habits, our hobbies, and our friends and family.  Most of all, I want to have fun! 

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I'm Stephanie. I'm an Austin, Texas native living in Denver, Colorado who blogs about my favorite Tex-Mex and travel-inspired recipe creations, food photography tech resources for bloggers. I want to make it easier for you provide sustenance to your family and show hospitality to others. Click here to learn more about me.

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