I started a blog.

Hasn't everyone?

My blog is called "What's for dinner?"

As the food editor, that seems logical. Everyone eats and someone has to cook. Those fast-food drive-throughs get expensive and are not so good for your health on a regular basis.

I post a recipe suggestion every morning, Monday through Friday. Since the food section of the paper is only two pages, this is a good opportunity to get more recipes and meal suggestions to readers. My aim is to find recipes that are quick, easy, nutritional and relatively inexpensive. I also try to include a photo of the food because I find it is harder to cook something if you are not sure what is supposed to look like when you are finished.

On a daily basis, I get a variety of e-mails from food industry sources, often pushing their own food products and agendas, of course. But sometimes there is a gem of a recipe included with the product information, which I can pass on to readers. Sometimes they mail me food samples, which is even better. Right now, on my desk I have a box of Pepper Jack Cheez-Its and four quarts of hemp milk. Not sure how to make dinner out of that combination, but you never know.

I hope to find recipes that use new and unusual food items that are in season and available locally. When farmers markets start up again in late spring, menus should reflect the fresh, seasonal offerings.

I also hope to keep readers informed on the food front as well, in a timely fashion.

I bet you didn't know Feb. 3 is National Carrot Day. I'm not sure who declared Feb. 3 National Carrot Day -- maybe Bugs Bunny -- but guess what I will be blogging about on Feb. 3?

I encourage readers to send me menu and recipe suggestions that have worked for them. Most cooks have a go-to, no-fail recipe or two that they can pull out when dinnertime is looming and hungry family and friends are waiting to be fed. This blog aims to provide a service and a means to share those ideas. We have all been there in some shape or form. As certain as death and taxes, every day we face that question, "What's for dinner?" Often it becomes a circular litany of "I don't know. What do you want to eat?" The response, "I don't care. What do you want to eat?" And so on and so on.

So, if this blog helps break that onerous chain of "What do you want to eat?" "I don't know. What do you want to eat?" it will be a good thing.

Many of the other staffers blog on other topics, including sports, country music, health news, pop culture and riding the bus to work.

And we have more citizen bloggers than staff bloggers who write about a multitude of interests and experiences.

So visit The Frederick News-Post's website at Fredericknewspost.com/blogs, and make sure to find out "What's for dinner?"