Cooking At Home
Working Together In The Kitchen
An Enjoyable Hobby, Pastime & Necessity!
Cooking is the act of preparing food for eating by the application of heat. It encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to alter the flavor or digestibility of food. It is the process of selecting, measuring and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure in an effort to achieve the desired result. Factors affecting the final outcome include the variability of ingredients, ambient conditions, tools, and the skill of the individual doing the actual cooking.
Around Our House
Sue has a great hobby and it is called cooking. Paul had a matching hobby, eating!
On this site we will share some of the receipts we use to create meals. See our favorites such as roasted-squash and home-made tomato sauce.
We grow our own veggies, please visit our little garden.
Chop chop slice slice!
Cooking classes circa 1903.
Chop chop slice slice!
Progress is being made. Electric is being used in 1928!
Chop chop slice slice!
Electric light bulbs and other modern marvels being used in 1928!Home Cooking
"Home cooking is a catalyst that brings people together. We are
losing the daily ritual of sitting down around the table (without the
intrusion of television), of having the opportunity to interact, to
share our experiences and concerns, to listen to others. Home kitchens,
despite the increase in designer appliances and cabinetry, are mostly
quiet and empty today. Strangers are preparing much of our food. And our
supermarkets, which once considered restaurants and fast-food places the
enemy, have joined the trend by enlarging their delis and offering
ready-to-eat food they call "home-replacement meals." But bringing
ready-cooked meals home is not the same as cooking in your own kitchen,
where you are in control of the ingredients you use, where you fill the
house with good cooking smells, and where you all share in a single
dish, taking a helping and passing the platter on to your
neighbor.
Nothing can replace that." — Marion Cunningham, from the
introduction to Lost Recipes.
Why this hobby?
Easy, it allows creativity. Taking the results from our garden, cleaning whatever we picked, and then saying to herself "What can I do with this?" It's better than a puzzle and a lot better tasting!
Quotes...
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not
at all." - Harriet Van Horne
"I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play
each time with a variation." - Madam Benoit
“Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid
ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry.” - Mike Cain
"The
highway is replete with culinary land mines disguised as quaint local
restaurants that carry such reassuring names as Millie's, Pop's and
Capt'n Dick's". - Bryan Miller
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness." - Elsa
Schiapirelli
"My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it." -
Buddy Hackett
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature
from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end. ~ Walter
Savage Landor
Kissing don't last: cookery do. ~ George Meredith
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~
Harriet Van Horne
Savory seasonings stimulate the appetite. ~ Latin Proverb
Fish, to taste right, must swim three times -- in water, in butter and in wine.
~ Polish Proverb
Man is what he eats. ~ German Proverb