I don’t know what happened. I think a somewhat domestic body snatcher has moved in. No, I haven’t become neat, although I know my husband would appreciate that. I’ve re-discovered my love of cooking.
I collect cookbooks and I used to subscribe to a number of cooking magazines. I hardly ever look at any of them, though. I look through the cookbooks available on Amazon. I still haven’t gotten inspired to start doing more than fixing meals for my husband and children.
I think the turnaround came when I stumbled upon a few Facebook pages devoted to different types of cooking. If I remember correctly the recipes that flashed across my screen were all for different yummy pumpkin dishes. I am getting into pumpkin even though I still don’t care for pumpkin pie. My mom loves all things pumpkin so I shared the recipes with her too.
The sites I’m following are for slow cooker recipes. I had forgotten how wonderful throwing food in the crock and returning hours later to dinner is. For the most part, slow cooker cooking is easy. I don’t choose recipes that take a lot of steps that I’m not interested in; I’m still lazy after all.
One of the sites publishes a list of ingredients on Friday for the dish to make on Monday. On Monday the site posts a video of the site owners cooking the dish so subscribers can follow along. I love this idea. I have managed to collect the ingredients and make a Monday dish, but I have not watched the video. I made chicken and dumplings. It was delicious and I will make it again.
I have done a few other things with my slow cooker since. I haven’t quite figured out writing a good shopping list and sticking to it, but I’ll get there.