My sister Clare has started a blog on cooking called "Nana Clare's Kitchen". http://www.nanaclareskitchen.com/ She has been married for many years. They actually cook a healthy rounded dinner each night. I'd hate to admit what I often do for dinner! I thought about the many online places to find recipes. I love Martha Stewart's web site, Great Food and many others. I like getting emails full of skillet meals, quick meals, easy Mexican meals, etc.
However that doesn't meet all my needs for recipes or 'how to' advice. So I thought about what do I actually look for in a recipe or want to learn? I have two ice cream makers I have never used!! Now years ago I used one like big one with rock salt but it makes a large amount of ice cream and I seldom entertain. It's kind of a big production to make. So I bought the little one. I must be intimidated to learn how to use it. I think it would be fun to make a small amount of ice cream or sherbet sometimes with it.
I have a spring form pan for cheesecake I got at a garage sale. It's never been used. Part of the problem is I don't want an entire cheesecake sitting in front of just me. I consider large desserts something I would make to bring for a potluck only. It's the same thing with the fancy food processor attachment I bought with my professional size Kitchen Maid mixer. I bought it after my own children were grown. All those years I used a hand mixer or a wooden spoon. Anyhow Clare, can anyone walk me through how to use that food processor? I am sure it does a lot. I spent $150 on it about 8 years ago. When is it worthwhile to use as opposed to using the chopping board?
My oldest daughter grows some veggies in her back yard. I am amazed that they have grown huge, and beautiful pumpkins. Why am I amazed? I gardened for years and always heard that our growing season was too short in Minnesota to grow a regular size pumpkin. They also grew zucchini. I am jealous. I don't have a garden area in my yard and the last few times I tried to grow it years ago I got squash borer and it ruined each plant. They also showed off very large abundant cucumber plants that even grew up the neighbors tree. They wanted a simple pickle recipe for them. Our sister Katie has one I hear but I haven't gotten it yet. I found some but they weren't the super simple type.
So Clare, how about some how to videos on making ice cream, cheesecake, and using food processors? I'm a person who gets more confidance to try something SEEING something done.
Oh I almost forgot. I have to know how my brother in law Ken makes the soft caramels. I can't leave those alone when they bring them for Christmas!
Oh yes, I bought , ummm, maybe 6 to 8 slow cooker books? I liked the idea of shopping for the recipe, throwing it all in the pot and 8 hours later having a wonderful dinner. I try to weed out the "weird" recipes. I don't want exotic expensive ingredients. I don't want to use mixes, I want to make it from scratch. I start going through the cookbooks. Ok, not quite so easy. They want you to brown off the meat. I can handle that. Then what? Oh, change the temp up, now down. Now what? Add the veggies the last two hours. And that isn't all! Now the problem I have with this is, isn't this supposed to be for the person who is leaving for work for the whole day? If I was home, couldn't I just throw things in the oven or on the stove top?
The blueberry recipe for chicken or pork chops is great! It does not taste weird.
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