The Beginning of a Journey

It's the same old story, different verse: underemployed woman who has just moved to a new area and needs a project. Her hobbies include cooking, playing JRPG's, and spending too much time on the Internet. She thinks for a long while about how to mark her days and have her days make their mark. Voila! Why not combine her three hobbies into one challenge?! (She might have seen Julie and Julia a few too many times, as well.) Thus, the idea for the Tales of Cooking blog was born: I will undertake every recipe in the game Tales of Symphonia in (gasp!) real life. Of course, I'm probably not going to make them enough times to "master" the recipe, so no special costumes for me, and if I start seeing the Wonder Chef, I will also start seeing a psychiatrist, but still, the challenge is there: make every recipe in Tales of Symphonia in real life, one or two per week since (alas!) I have a real life grocery budget, and I'm pretty sure that if I try to kill monsters around here, I won't be getting any money out of the deal. :-) I'm starting my umpteenth playthrough of Tales of Symphonia tonight, and I'll start cooking when I start getting recipes. Will I be using a walkthrough to make sure that I get all the recipes? You betcha!