My dear youngest bought herself Jaimie Oliver's cook book called "Comfort Food" and has made some delicious meals for our family. The dishes are have multiple layers of flavor that make each dish remarkable.
I bought two Donal Sheklan's, a lovely Irish young chef, cookbooks and am looking forward to trying his recipes.
I also bought Dorie Greenspan's new book and can't wait to get myself baking. Her recipes always raise the cook to higher levels of cooking or baking.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Time and life
I started this blog for two things:
1. to join a lovely group of women and men who cook their way through Dorie Greenspan's lovely cook books.
2. To remember my family's recipes and my family history.
What I found:
1. I love to cook and so does my youngest daughter - cooking with these lovely people helped expand my daughters knowledge as well as making her fearless to try any recipe. She has surpassed me in her daring and her ability to season a dish perfectly. She is a remarkable home cook at 19 years of age.
Many times I find people are afraid to cook because they lack experience, lack patience and most of all because they see themselves as incompetent in the kitchen because they have made one or two simple mistakes by taking on a recipe beyond their experience. They become afraid. They may not realize that cooking is like anything we learn.. it takes steps and knowing that failures will be part of the learning process and need to approach it as you would teaching a young child to do math, music, reading or any skill. If you watch a young child play you can see them learn - They learn from others and by many fun times practicing over and over.
2. Life - is always a surprise and that is a good thing as it helps you learn so much. Over the holidays my family was blessed to have our cousins visit from France - I miss them already. I am lucky to have had a chance to do what was really important and be with my loved ones when they needed me.
My youngest took over the cooking and I have to admit it was hard for me to start cooking again as she is so talented and I needed to get back into the swing of things. (I always thought, most of the time, that I was a good/ok home cook but she has natural talent to be a chef if she went to culinary school),
3. I lost sight of my purpose for this post, in the first place; I put this post up for myself and my family -I am a horrible writer and knew that others would not see it. I have hit a road block regarding getting the recipes just right and, with a busy life, I haven't had the time to get back to recording family history through memories and cooking.
4. I and my daughter haven't stopped cooking but cooking was simplified during this time. I just didn't have time to update here as we were living life. I found my passion for my family history and cooking had not changed but I had to put it on the back burner. Not a failure.. just how things happen.
5.Most of all, I am awed by my dear husband (a generous and kind man) , my children (can't say enough about them) and the entire family on both sides. I don't know how I became so blessed. I have had to put many visits on hold but I can't wait to get back to both sides of the family on a regular weekly basis.
I am looking forward to getting back to the true reason I started this blog - family.
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