I have been using a subscription service for about 2 months and am canceling it because I find I prefer my own combinations of fresh food, frozen food, and pantry staples. I like recipes like pasta cooked in the sauce, soup (often with leftovers in it), baked potatoes, sweet or regular, stuffed with veggies and vegan (homemade) cheese, rice and beans and veggies, tacos, and stuff like that. Also a fave meal is sourdough focaccia with the dough mixed with spices, herbs and nutritional yeast, cooked in olive oil,and eaten with a little salad or leftover soup. It’s incredible how a fresh loaf of an easy to make bread, makes a meal out of basically not much. Sourdough focaccia takes like 5 minutes to mix, another 3 to mix in the spice etc. after the first rise, and 40-50 minutes in the oven. So, very little hands on time and an easy cleanup if you out the risen mixed dough into parchment paper and then into a Pyrex casserole, covered to keep in the steam. It brown in the oven once you take off the foil cover for the last 10 minutes. Really easy and nice.
I actually do make something new about 5 days a week. I have well over 100 cookbooks, plus dozens more on my Kindle. Every weekend I sit down with a few and pick out recipes. This week I’m cooking from Cook this Book, Weekday Vegetarian Made Simple, What to Cook if you don’t feel like cooking 2 different recipes), the Boston Globe. I should mention my husband made our dinners for 30 years so I’ve not always been cooking! I enjoyed your article!
Thank you for reading, Janet! Love this for you! I love a good “cook all the new recipes” era
How do you like Cook This Book? I bought it recently and will be making stuff from it soon for my Cookbook Project: Will My 3 Year Old Eat This — would love to hear your thoughts
I have been using a subscription service for about 2 months and am canceling it because I find I prefer my own combinations of fresh food, frozen food, and pantry staples. I like recipes like pasta cooked in the sauce, soup (often with leftovers in it), baked potatoes, sweet or regular, stuffed with veggies and vegan (homemade) cheese, rice and beans and veggies, tacos, and stuff like that. Also a fave meal is sourdough focaccia with the dough mixed with spices, herbs and nutritional yeast, cooked in olive oil,and eaten with a little salad or leftover soup. It’s incredible how a fresh loaf of an easy to make bread, makes a meal out of basically not much. Sourdough focaccia takes like 5 minutes to mix, another 3 to mix in the spice etc. after the first rise, and 40-50 minutes in the oven. So, very little hands on time and an easy cleanup if you out the risen mixed dough into parchment paper and then into a Pyrex casserole, covered to keep in the steam. It brown in the oven once you take off the foil cover for the last 10 minutes. Really easy and nice.
I actually do make something new about 5 days a week. I have well over 100 cookbooks, plus dozens more on my Kindle. Every weekend I sit down with a few and pick out recipes. This week I’m cooking from Cook this Book, Weekday Vegetarian Made Simple, What to Cook if you don’t feel like cooking 2 different recipes), the Boston Globe. I should mention my husband made our dinners for 30 years so I’ve not always been cooking! I enjoyed your article!
Thank you for reading, Janet! Love this for you! I love a good “cook all the new recipes” era
How do you like Cook This Book? I bought it recently and will be making stuff from it soon for my Cookbook Project: Will My 3 Year Old Eat This — would love to hear your thoughts