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First post!

Welcome to my cooking blog!

Coming up with a name for any endeavour can be a difficult process. Brainstorming got as far as combining my name, geographical location, family history with various forms of cooking. Dana's Recipes, The Loyalist Cookbook, Kanata Kitchen and others were floated but nothing seemed to come back to port.

Finally I posted on Facebook to get my friends input and Mark Schaefer from my old gaming clan came up with "The Angry Crumpet", and said, "Only you'll know Crumpet stands for Cats, RUm, Models, Paintball & Electric Trains" with the words in the acronym representing my various interests.

So here we are. After several years of procrastinating planning the blog is up the first recipe will be posted shortly. If you have any requests, fire away and I'll see what I can do.

Cheers!

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