Welcome Back Home Cooked Meals
I’m happy to finally be able to re-launch Home-Cooked-Meals! You may have noticed that I haven’t had time for the blog lately. I haven’t been doing a whole lot of cooking either. I’ve returned to…
Old Recipes
My mother didn’t really organize recipes. She stuffed them in books, in amongst other papers, wrote them on envelopes, put them in her appointment book with clients’ phone numbers on them. My grandmother seems not…
Cooking with Friends
I’m exhausted. A friend asked me yesterday if we could do a bulk-cooking session today. With one thing or another, we hadn’t been able to get together for a while, so this was an unexpected…
The new kitchen is functional!
After weeks of moving, I finally have the new kitchen functional…and wow…is it amazing. My father-in-law is so wonderful to let us live here! Part of what took so long was combining 3 kitchens into…
Farmers Markets
Yesterday was one of the days when I just wandered from market to market. We started with Rosabella’s Garden Bakery where I bought my annual box of apples — a box of Jonagolds that were…
Cooking for Health and Play
I didn’t feel like going out to buy food yesterday. As I started cooking, firing up the trusty cast-iron dutch-oven, my husband asked what was for dinner. "Whatever falls in this pot." No, I wasn’t…
The Right Way to make Lasagna
One of my dear friends came over to cook last week and left me speechless as she explained to me "the right way" to make lasagna. It turns out I’ve been doing it wrong all…
Eating out of the Freezer
I haven’t felt much like cooking in the last few days. Big adventures, planning out the summer’s activities for the family and getting the kids through the last days of school have drained my energy….