Welcome #Cravers!

Welcome #Cravers! I cannot tell you how excited I am to be writing our very first blog post! I want to welcome you all to our lives and monthly dinner dates, shopping adventures, coffee drinking, and occasional girlfriend gossip.

Let me begin by introducing US! My name is Kita, my co-blogger is Ashley. We met in June of 2015 while working at a large Korean-French fusion, bakery. Connecting over our love of baking and frustration towards our employer, we quickly bonded. As the years went on, we’d began to lose touch and kept doing the classic, “yeah we should totally hang out”, texting back and forth until one day, Ashley reached out to me for her new business venture: AshleyNicole-Cakes. Excited to bring my knowledge and education of food service management advice to the table, we made plans to finally meet!

We met for dinner at one of our favorite small chain Italian restaurants, Il Fornaio. This was December 2017, over 2 years after our initial friendship broke ground. We sat and talked for hours, going to the Starbucks down the road for coffee afterwards. It was that night that we vowed we would do dinner once a month, no questions asked, no bailing. A way to stay connected and in each others lives. To have that girl support that each and every lady needs.

We've been diligent for the past year and 4 months. We missed a couple dinners due to personal emergencies, (we always make up for it by doing 2 dinners the next month), but otherwise have been able to stay connected over the past year. I consider her to be on of my best friends now. We text almost daily and go to each other for advice or when we need support.

Over the past month Ashley and I have grown even closer and have seen each other every Tuesday for the past 4 weeks due to a recent breakup of mine that was particularly difficult. She has been my rock and voice of reason. It occurred to us on the second week when I was in some desperate need of some retail therapy that we should be documenting our dinners. Our original goal was to have a different kind of cuisine every month, that got difficult. So we decided we just won't repeat any restaurants. We were thinking back on all the places we had gone and we couldn't remember a large portion of them! We thought, how can we keep track of this? Ashley suggested a blog! Our imagination and ideas spiraled and thus ‘Monthly Cravings’ was born.

Where did our name come from? Well, it was all Ashley’s idea. The idea behind it is that we have dinner/meet up once a MONTH and when deciding what we are going to eat, we always ask each other “what are you craving?” so it just seemed to be a perfect fit that our name was Monthly Cravings.

We have worked hard over the past few weeks to get our domain, Instagram, and website up and running. We are so extremely excited to share our lives, experiences and this new adventure with all of our #Cravers! We want to hear from you, so comment or email us, What Are You Craving?