What Is This, A Blog For Ants?!

So I decided I wanted to have a place to put recipes. I have Pinterest & all that, but I find that, so often, I am changing recipes as I go along, adding this, substituting this for that, cooking an extra 10 minutes, blah blah you get the idea. I like to cook for my family, and Pinterest is a great resource for so many amazing recipes, but it was getting overwhelming trying to remember what I had changed about a recipe from the last time I made it & what I would like to try differently the next time I make it. So instead, I made a blog and called it Castle Castlestein. Isn't that what anyone would do in a predicament  such as this? Exactly. 

I've been a wife since 2011, and a mom since 2013. I live in Southern California with my family. We like it, it's cool. I also like cooking healthy stuff, with real food ingredients, with an outcome that doesn't taste gross. I don't know why this is so much to ask in the world. One of my pet peeves with Pinterest is that so many "easy" or "light" recipes contain some kind of Cream of Something Condensed Soup, huge globs of cream cheese rolled up inside a chicken with more cream cheese on top, or spaghetti noodles stuck inside a hot dog…if you have a Pinterest account, you get what I am talking about. I am all about cooking real food with real ingredients because "easy" does not have to mean "I dumped this out of a frozen package into a skillet and called it dinner". 

We like to eat pretty healthy around here at the Castle of Castlestein, but we are total foodie freaks that love to eat, so I hope that you like some of the recipes you find here and it gives everyone some good ideas for healthy meals for you and your family and friends.

I invent some of my own recipes, and I adapt and change a lot of recipes. I will link the original source to recipes that I find and change around a bit. I started this venture to keep track of my own stuff, but then I thought, why not make a blog that everyone can view and take ideas from, because its what makes the world go round and all..

Cheers friends.