Fix-It and Forget-It

Can you imagine needing to cook three meals a day? Every day. From scratch.

Here’s how naïve I am. When Merle and I were just married—and I was falling in love with cooking (well, with him, too, of course)—I was horrified when my mother-in-law said to me in a matter-of-fact way one day, “I’m kind of tired of cooking.” I’m sure I had been rattling on and on about how much fun cooking was.

What??!! This woman who made full and amazing meals without any perceptible rise in her blood pressure? I couldn’t believe it. Hey—I needed her to be my perpetual-cook icon out there ahead of me, showing me how it’s done with utter ease.

I did go off in a corner that day to try to calculate roughly how many meals she had made so far during her marriage.

Her—33,945*
Me—about 123
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We’ve got stuff cooking today in The Good Cooking Store. That would be literally and figuratively.

We’re publishing a new cookbook in September, called Lizzie’s Cookbook: A Treasury of Favorite Amish Recipes—and today we’re photographing its cover.
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