Fix-It and Forget-It

Who decides what’s grown-up food and what’s kid food? I’m thinking parents.

I have a friend whose son just turned four, and he requested sushi and miso soup for his birthday meal. And also an M&M Cake.
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Rebecca is my daughter. She’s a very good cook. While I couldn’t get her to chop an onion when she was growing up, she’s become a cook who tries everything now—successfully. She also is the Manager of The Good Cooking Store in our little Lancaster County town of Intercourse, PA. She taught Language Arts to middle-schoolers for 7 years. Now we benefit from all of her energy and good ideas. Don’t miss what she has to say!
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Do you know a family who seems to have the cooking gene? They’re known for their food and people love to get invitations to their meals. Our friends are just such a family of cooks: Esther Rose Graber, the matriarch, with her 5 daughters and 1 daughter-in-law. They’ve been cooking together and collecting recipes for years until their binders were jammed and falling apart.
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In case you’re ever stumped with a slow cooker question, we have some solid and surprising advice! It comes from an army of home cooks. I mean, really, who knows more?!
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So this week a grandma showed up with two of her granddaughters at the cooking class Rebecca and I taught together in our Good Cooking Store. It was the grandma’s Christmas gift to the two kids. The three of them kept watching our cooking class calendar, waiting for a class that they were all interested in, held on a day when they could all attend.
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It’s here! Buy the Book Week is upon us and we're pretty excited! Fix-It and Forget-It Vegetarian Cookbook is now available wherever you purchase your cookbooks. Buy the book this week and join the eating fun.
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We are planning a new book called Tips for Using Your Slow Cooker. So many of our cooking friends ask questions about using their slow cookers that we are collecting tips and answers in a handy new book. We need your help!
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Today I ate a watercress sandwich for Anna May. Well, not really. I ate it for me. But I thought of my friend who’s left this earth as I bit into the bitey green stems and leaves.
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Folks, I am actively working at making and eating more meatless meals. This takes practice. This requires a new way of thinking about how to put a meal together.

I’m not giving up meat. But I am asking it to move aside. I’m upping the vegetables and grains that I eat—and cook—day-to-day.

You see, I wanted to do a Fix-It and Forget-It Vegetarian Cookbook because I need a little help here. My life’s pretty full, so during the week when I don’t have a lot of time to think, I tend to drop back to the familiar. Often our evening meals are built around chicken that I can cook quickly or some beef that provides a flavorful center to our dinner.
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On Tuesday, we posted a giveaway for a Staub Dutch Oven.
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