When it comes to recipes and meal planning, my head starts to spin...I'm constantly wondering, "Where should I start?" I have so many ideas and all these hints and tips from other websites that I want to try, or have tried but didn't follow through with long enough to find out if they work...or if they did work, I stopped doing them for one reason or another. Unfortunately, I am easily sidetracked and tend to spin my wheels.
Finding recipes is not a difficult task for me, I have many cookbooks, (2 bookcases worth), recipe cards and online recipes, so why do we end up in a dinnertime rut? For nearly 2 years I put together a daily newsletter called Easy Tastebud Delights. These were recipes that we had tried or wanted to try with few ingredients that were EASY. When I flip through that binder, I am back in the moment and my inspiration returns. I wonder why I haven't made these meals more, and came to the conclusion that it's simply because I forgot about them and the way they made me feel at the time. My boys are wonderful at reminding me of the dinners that they enjoy and would love to have again. This helps my motivation.
My oldest son, Ryan is 15 and taking a food course in high school this year. He has many fond memories of the family meals we had as he was growing up, during the time that I was using my family as guinea pigs in my Easy Tastebud Delights era. Meal time was FUN back then...not all of the experiments were successes, but WOW! we learned alot and the boys didn't seem to notice the FLOPS like we did. It was tasty food as far as they were concerned. Hunter, who just turned 9 years old last month, is convinced that Mom is the BEST cook ever! Although it is flattering to me, it's also been slightly embarassing when we've had meals elsewhere and he told our host how he feels.
Tonight, I sat here reading archived emails that I've collected over the years and knew I had to start somewhere to get these words down in print, so decided to start a new a blog...not only to share tips and recipes but also food thoughts and memories that I find to be so important...in a verbal diarrhea kind of way.
Remember, I need to start somewhere! Bear with me as I type this, it may not always make sense to you, but to get it down in print is the most important thing at this point...I'll sort it out later and am sure it will make sense in time.
