WHY...

...are there so many dishes in the sink when I just ran the washer?
...are there recipes on the coffee table, floor, counter, bed, desk, windowsill?
...are there more rotting bananas in the fridge?
...did you spend $75 on chocolate chips?
...do you spend so much time on the Internet?

These are questions I frequently hear from my dear husband. And the answer to all of them is the same. I'm crazy about cooking. I cook at all hours of the day, I dream about baked goods, I write recipes while I watch TV, and pretty much all of the time I spend online is on the myriad of recipe sites, foodie blogs, and restaurant websites. So I'm actually surprised that it's taken this long for me to start writing my own blog about food. I guess it struck me that maybe instead of just taking information from the Internet I would give back a bit and contribute some of my own thoughts. And maybe no one will ever read them. At the very least this will serve as a reminder to myself about my own ideas and brainstorms.

So the next question is WHY... a blog about food experiments?

Well my biggest frustration in cooking is that there are too many recipes out there for the same dishes. It takes forever to sort through them all and then how do you really know which one is the one that works the best? And then if none of them really work should I combine elements of some to create a new recipe? Or should I just scrap them all and start from the beginning on my own?

My selfish hope is that by consecutively trying 10 versions of say, banana bread, I will decide once and for all which one is best and never have to look for another. My unselfish hope is that by writing about my experiments, readers who face the same predicament will also save some time and frustration (not to mention wasted ingredients and lots of dirty dishes).

So if you want to know what the best recipe is for pie crust, brownies, chocolate chip cookies, pound cake (you insert the item that torments you) keep reading. This is the blog that will answer your question.

Oh and one last note - as you can see the title of my blog is The Sweets Experiment. I LOVE anything sweet so I mostly bake vs cook which means most of my experiments (certainly the ones I start with) will be baked goods!