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My Recipe Book
Being fairly new to really and truly cooking from scratch, my recipe book was...well...nonexistent, to be honest lol.
It was a book my mother gave me once that she intended to fill with recipes but finally gave up and just gave me the empty little binder and told me to copy some of her recipes. I copied a few but, busy with baby boot camp at the time, I mainly just stuck the book in a dusty corner and poked a scrap of paper with a scribbled recipe on it or a torn magazine recipe into it's pages now and again. I never pulled the book out until I began my cooking-from-scratch journey two years ago. I had read so many great articles by so many neat ladies about leaving a legacy,about cooking with your kids underfoot in the kitchen and keeping a recipe book where you not only write the recipe but particular tips, changes you make,likes and dislikes, etc along the way. I got inspired one day and pulled out that dusty recipe book. It was very sentimental to me already, even though I'd hardly used the thing, because my mother has since left this earth.
My entire cooking-from-scratch journey has been so that I can not only feed my family wonderful, healthy foods; but so that I can make memories of a warm kitchen full of wonderful smells and tastes, a place where you can wander through and join Mom in whatever she's making or pull up a chair and visit....all in hopes that my children love to cook for themselves and for their future families as well. The idea of a well-used, well-loved recipe book that's opened and flour-dusted daily by me, with them in my kitchen, really struck a chord.
So, I cleaned up that little book, tossed out things that made no sense (there was ALOT of that lol) and recopied onto the cards recipes I thought we would use...this was the start of my journey--about this same time I bought my big mixing bowl and wooden spoon. Already this book is special-- my kids go get it without me asking when we're pondering menu ideas or when they want something particular, I've even memorized many of our favorites. We’ve added quite a few tried n liked recipes to it as of late. All basic stuff, just from scratch. I'd like to broaden the book a bit further by writing more journal-type comments alongside favored recipes. Who really loved cooking it with me, who loved eating it best lol, what we did or didn’t do regarding the recipe, was there a special day or did we make the day special?
What a priceless way to live every day, making memories and leaving legacy--and eatin' good!! :)
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