About

I really really want to be a good cook.  It's something that is always needed, and I believe that cooking for someone is a way to show them how much you care.  Also I'm Southern and we hold a large amount of respect for food, and use it as a way to spend time with our loved ones.  This blog will hopefully help me with that by providing me with a good way to document any success or failures I have, as well as tips & tricks to repeat or avoid (as needed) those experiences.  Also I tend to be more successful in things when I feel like someone is holding me accountable, which is how blogs make me feel. 

This blog started off being titled "Seasoned with Effort," and trust me that saying still applies to my efforts in the kitchen!  That's why it's still included in my tagline.  But after almost 6 months of chronicling my cooking journey, I realized that almost every post of mine ends with "Next time I'll definitely add more tomatoes."  See, from childhood I've had an obsession with tomatoes.  I don't know why.  Well, I do actually- because they're freakin' delicious.  Seriously, if you give me a choice between a Reese's Cup and a juicy red tomato with a bit of salt...I'll choose the tomato about 97% of the time.   So I decided to change the name of my blog to "More Tomatoes" because it's more original, personal, and quite frankly you just need to get used to hearing reading it if you're going to stick around this particular part of the Internetz.

To learn more about me, visit my main blog Transplanted Roots :)  You can also check out my many other blogs here.