Climbing the Ladder...While Cooking

I'm on a mission. A mission not to succumb to the siren song of teriyaki takeout. Or the my-life-is-lame bowl of cereal for dinner.

By day, I'm a marketer for a complicated business services product at a big tech company. Most of my waking hours, I feel some combination of stressed out, tense, and anxious. Pleasant, right? And to make it better, those hours typically last a pretty long time. Oh, and did I mention they're spent in a windowless office (and that the window offices are given to darkness-loving software developers??!! A story for another day.)

By the time I get home (late), I'm always starving. And after a day of doing things I don't really love, I want to eat something I really do. Hence, the genesis for Working Girl Gourmet. A blog to track my attempts at cooking yummy, soul-satisfying, mostly-somewhat-healthy dinners while still climbing up that corporate ladder. 

Recipes worthy of the Working Girl Gourmet need to meet the following criteria:

1. Be better than takeout. Else why bother?

2. Take less than 45 minutes to make (unless it's the weekend).

3. Meet my self-appointed foodie bar of approval (yes, I'm a bit of a snob).

You in?