Fancy footwork has been needed this last ten days. Christmas preparations, dinners, New Years festivities, but that’s not the only thing that has consumed my life. For years I have talked about wanting to take a Cooking course, but have never pursued it. I actually love being home, and I need to eat. Well, I like to eat. After years of watching cooking shows and gathering cookbooks, I am moving forward with at home, self taught lessons. That would satisfy all three: being at home, cooking lessons, and eating. The danger? I’ll need to buy a new wardrobe. In the last week or so, I have cooked something different each day. Some from google, the rest from my cookbooks, including handwritten recipes I have been given or are from google. One goal is to use my books as much as possible, but online is important to answer many questions - and to get a recipe in a hurry! As life slows down, I’ll get better at using my cook books.
Today: Home made chilli from my freezer - (a google recipe from two years ago)
New Years Day: Norwegian Silver Dollar Pancakes (Scandinavian Gatherings - a Christmas gift.
New Years Eve: Pan boiled potatoes (Jacque Pépin - Facebook) - a happy accident as I was scrolling.
Before that:
Potato Scones: from Cooking with Potatoes by Jenny Stacy
Bread pudding from Better Homes and Gardens new Cookbook, from the late 1960’s
Muffins: (google)
Christmas Coleslaw - another google recipe in a hurry
Devilled Eggs - another google recipe in a hurry
My very loose schedule:
Writing projects in the morning
Cooking ‘lesson’ in the afternoon/evening
Writing in the evening
The fancy footwork?
Family, friends, living and reading in-between - ‘cause I’m not giving any of those up!!
“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary,
a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations
of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present,
the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
~ Laurie Colwin
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