Even though my cooking post attracted more attention than any other, I decided not to make this into a cooking blog because
1. I only cook two or three times a year and
2. My blog currently has no purpose and I like it that way.
My brother-in-law, however, has recently started up a fabulous cooking blog, featuring videos of him cooking Russian and Tatar cuisine as well as original dishes. His food is simple, fresh, and scrumptiously good; in fact, it is forcing me to reconsider my vegetarianism, because the way he cooks meat is almost irresistible even to this life-long meat hater.
Those of you not lucky enough to live 10 minutes from his house can enter his virtual kitchen here.