I posted tonight about buying two new cookbooks...and it got me to thinking about cooking, family and traditions...with the holiday's right around the corner, those things are front and center on my list right now:)
I posted this on my personal wall that it didn't take much to make me happy...a night at home with my kids (we are going to watch Soul Surfer as soon as I get through with this) and two new cookbooks....
I LOVE cookbooks...I especially love the ones with stories in them about how the dish came about...who cooked it, and when they cooked it...I love the ones with pictures...Pioneer Woman has one of the best cookbooks I have ever had...it not only has delicious dishes...she takes all her own pictures and it shows step by step how to prepare them...what they should be looking like every step of the way, and she tells such great stories in them, and has pictures of her family in it...a great cookbook if you are a cookbook lover like me. Of course Paula Deen is still my favorite:) Her cooking is so much my style:)
One thing I started doing several years back is making notes in my cookbooks...If I cook a dish for a birthday dinner (a tradition in our family...everyone gets their choice of birthday dinner, whether it be restaurant or favorite dish prepared at home) I write next to the recipe, when I made it...if the kids liked it or not...changes I made to it...things I should change next time....I do this for me as a reference, but I also do it with the hopes that my kids will be as sentimental as me some day:) As my oldest gets older, I definitely see it happening to her:) I hope that one day when I am too old to be the one doing all the cooking and as my girls (and hopefully son) start going through my cookbooks finding recipes mom used to make for them, they will see my notes and they will mean something to them...and bring back memories of Christmas or a birthday party...those notes in my cookbooks are like a journal to the special meals I have made over the years...and if my kids turn out anything like me...those cookbooks with my notes in them will someday be something they treasure when I am no longer here...something maybe my grandkids will too:)
