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This is a blog about food.

Surprise, surprise! Everyone's writing about food! Everyone thinks they know food and that because they watch one episode of Master Chef Australia they are now culinary connoisseurs. Well, I'm not going to pretend I know anything about food. I have never prepared a dinner and I wouldn't know where to start if I had to cook rice. This does not bode well for someone like myself who is moving into digs this year and has to cook dinner for 4 other people.

Now, you might be wondering why I have chosen to write about food - a topic I clearly know nothing about. Well, I wish to put my writing skills to the test as well as to remove all the pretentious crap that surrounds food these days. Cooking shows like Master Chef, I believe, are incredibly intimidating for the casual home cook when all one wants to do is cook a tasty meal without fear of being marked down on presentation. As a student and a future kitchen calamity for my unsuspecting digs mates, I hope to take you on a journey of burned pasta sauce, under cooked chicken and half backed lasagne.

My challenge for the next 24 hours is to come up with a lovely dinner dish for my first set of guinea pigs - my family. My ambitions are quite high as I hope to find a good lasagne dish that I can reuse in digs. I cannot count on a great success and I might just have to update our take away menus.

Well, I hope that has given you some idea of what to expect. I must wrap up as it is lunch time and I hear a sandwich calling my name.