Something I have wanted to do for so long.

There are so many food blogs out there so I guess I'm really just trying to find a style for this blog. Really I think I'll just let the blog evolve and maybe a style will materialize through my experiences.
I'm attempting to do this blog solely by my mobile device so adding media may be slow until I figure out exactly how to do it.
I'm not a professional chef but a food lover...foodie is what I hear us called in the mainstream...which I need to find a name that is not so accepted!
"Bubblehead" is a slang term for a Submariner, endearing to me, similar to terms like Jarhead, Swabbie, Ground pounder e.t.c. I did 11 1/2 years in the United States Submarine Force as a SONAR technician. My love for cooking actually came about through necessity rather than passion. Being a bachelor in my young Navy life I needed to eat and could not stand the food at the mess hall, but could not afford to eat out daily. I found myself cooking in the barracks more and more needing more and more variety. One Christmas my Mom bought me a Emeril Lagasse cookbook and my passion began to grow.
Before my career ended I was living with a few of my shipmates and my girlfriend when I started hosting large BBQs. I loved slow cooking meat and reinventing side dishes that my mother and grandmother taught me when I was younger. One of the coolest things anyone has ever said to me was from my roomate Mark. He said "Brian it is amazing how you can take a cheap piece of meat and make it taste like something from a restaurant.". His smile as he was eating was gift enough for me but the words hit home and my food trek went into warp drive.
I guess what I ultimately would like to do is research regional cooking. America was built by immigrants and I want to know the obscure history of how immigrant cooking evolved from homestyle recipes to new recipes using the ingredients from the new land in which they were making home.
I hope, as any blogger I would imagine would, my blog gets read by others and I can meet some new people to enjoy my passion with and learn both blogging but cooking from the great Americans foodies.
Oh and one thing...I'm not a great writer so if your a grammer/spelling Nazi please don't badger me with comments on how to fix my writings.

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