It was simple, right? Keep busy, just a little bit. A podcast every week on Sunday night, cooking with friends every Thursday, etc. How did it get so hard to do?

I’m talking about Gourmet Thursdays. The past few weeks things got in the way either of filming Gourmet Thursdays or simply having the event n the first place. This week was a special even at my volunteer job; NExt week is a trip to I’ll-tell-you-later. But really, I realized that I’m not doing the filming right. I thought it would just be enough to get a little footage of a friend cooking, chop it together with all of us eating, and boom, I’m done. But the footage is never compelling ’cause there isn’t anything for the viewer. I never give away the recipe. And that’s just what I have to do. So I watched about 20 minutes of Food Network to figure out the problems I’ve been having with the concept, and now I wanna do a real cooking show.

So here’s how it goes: next Gourmet Thursday, I am doing the actually cooking. I’m making Lel film me as I go through the recipe step-by-step, and I film everyone eating the food. I edit over the course of the week, and show the completed episode on the next Thursday, effectively making every Thursday a viewing party for the episode that was shot the previous week. Cool, huh?

Anyways, the next available Thursday to cook is May 3, so I’ll be practicing until then. Hopefully you’ll see an episode by May 10. Fingers crossed. What do you think?