The weather makes me read recipes!

Georgiagranny

Georgiagranny

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About that recipe rabbit hole that I mentioned yesterday and earlier today on another thread... My homepage shows lots of recipes, but the ones that make me SMH are those that say something like "This is so good that I make it once a week" or "I make these 17 casseroles every week" or some such foolishness. Lordy! If you got fed the same things every week wouldn't you rebel? Or 17 casseroles? 17? Really? That's a lot of leftovers :ROFLMAO:

Then there are the nostalgia articles about things we used to eat in the 50s and 60s when Grandma served them on the regular and saying it's a shame we don't make them anymore. Meatloaf, spaghetti, pot roast, grilled cheese sandwiches. What?

Well, anyway, I'm having a good time reading recipes, but it's not like the old days when I'd clip them from a magazine or a newspaper and stash them in a recipe box never to be seen again. Now they're c/p'd to a recipe file on the laptop where they're handy.

Depending on how cold it gets this winter and how many of the new recipes I try, by spring I might have trouble rolling myself out to the garden...
 

I have several cookbooks that I read and reread at various times during the year, like a cozy visit with an old friend.

I also get sucked into the Facebook reels but I’m finding that many content presenters and influencers just dump several bottles, boxes, and cans into a crockpot without much thought.

I tend to gravitate towards the old ‘make do’ type of recipes from cooks with big families and small budgets.
 

The cookbooks that I really still like are the spiral-bound ones that we'd get from church groups, women's clubs and such like as that. Remember those? I have lots of them that I just won't part with.

I also like the Gooseberry Patch cookbooks. They feature recipes submitted by their readers. The 3-, 4- or 5-Ingredient ones have some recipes that I've used for years. Won't part with those, either. One of them has the recipe for Mexican Potato Soup that we're having tomorrow.

The hardest part of cooking for me was un-learning to cook for a big family. There were often anywhere from 6 to 10 people at the table at suppertime. When it was just me and a roommate after I left home, I'd cook on Sunday, and we'd eat leftovers all week long!
 
Georgiagranny said:
The cookbooks that I really still like are the spiral-bound ones that we'd get from church groups, women's clubs and such like as that. Remember those? I have lots of them that I just won't part with.

I also like the Gooseberry Patch cookbooks. They feature recipes submitted by their readers. The 3-, 4- or 5-Ingredient ones have some recipes that I've used for years. Won't part with those, either. One of them has the recipe for Mexican Potato Soup that we're having tomorrow.

The hardest part of cooking for me was un-learning to cook for a big family. There were often anywhere from 6 to 10 people at the table at suppertime. When it was just me and a roommate after I left home, I'd cook on Sunday, and we'd eat leftovers all week long!
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I have a hard time cooking for one. I always cooked when I lived at home and there were 6 of us. I never broke the habit. The good news is, I love leftovers, so problem fixed. Also, I used to have a library of cookbooks but gave them away when the internet came out. I was trying to downsize. My husband made me a notebook for recipes. When I'd see one, I like, I would print it off and put it in the notebook.
 
When I get in the rabbit hole, I can read for a couple of hours. If I’m having company, I might as well set apart an afternoon.

Also, almost all my recipes are on my ipad now. Some older ones that I had in paper file folders have now been scanned.

Every so often I go through the files and wonder why on earth I thought something would be worth making. They get deleted or tossed.

If I’m making recipe that I need to look at several times, I print it. It gets tossed afterwards because it’s mucky. All my spills don’t belong on my tablet.
 

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