A few days ago I spent the afternoon with my friend Marie. She is a lady that I absolutely adore! Her children range in age from like 8-18 (four boys) and are some of the most well mannered kids I have ever met. Marie makes homemade pepper jelly every summer with the peppers she grows in her garden. In case you didn't know this already I am a big fan of pepper jelly. I sometimes buy the Harry & David kind but not often since I'm poor. Well...Marie invited me to come spend the afternoon at her house and learn to make pepper jelly. All she asked me to bring was some jars and some sugar. She grew all the peppers herself. And she had the vinegar and pectin. I came home with ten jars of pepper jelly. I had so much fun. I had intended to post pictures but I got so caught up in actually making jelly I forgot to take pictues of us making jelly.
While we were waiting for the jelly to cool a little Marie told me about how to make other kinds of jelly. She said if you can make one (and I did in fact make a batch of the pepper jelly) that you can make any kind. I am excited to try and make some strawberry jam. I am excited to have a skill that I have always wanted. I feel like I can make something and give it to people as a gift and they will think I am so cool for knowing how to make this! Ha! I am such a dork.
So this has me thinking about other things I want to learn to make. So I am making a list of the things I want to learn to make. I already have a list of things I want to learn to do. I will probably post these at a later date. I am excited that I am learning how to make things from scratch. Oh, this is a random side note but my grandma gave me a bunch of vegetables from her garden so I am cooking lots of FRESH things this week and that makes me happy too!
I guess this post was kind of random...but it's all I've got for now!
Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
A Beautiful Quiche!
I did it! I have wanted to try making a quiche for awhile now. My friend Kalee shared a recipe with me and I made it my goal to make one by the end of this month. Well, I bought the rest of the groceries I needed on Friday and Sunday afternoon I finally got brave enough to make it. It wasn't really that hard actually. It took some patience because things had to be done in steps. But when it was done I was so super proud of myself, plus it was delicious! I froze part of it to have later since it is just me and I would get tired of eating quiche if I had it every meal of the day until it was gone. (Or maybe not, because did I mention that it was delicious!) I was shocked at how good it turned out and how it wasn't nearly as hard as I had thought it might be. I don't have much else to say about it. I am just really proud.
Ta-da! There it is. Gosh I feel like such an accomplished chef. I guess making quiche doesn't really go with my health goals, but it goes with my trying new things goals! You can make it too, I'm sure of it!! If you want to know how just ask and I'll tell you or I'll direct you to Kalee's blog so you can learn from the pro!
Ta-da! There it is. Gosh I feel like such an accomplished chef. I guess making quiche doesn't really go with my health goals, but it goes with my trying new things goals! You can make it too, I'm sure of it!! If you want to know how just ask and I'll tell you or I'll direct you to Kalee's blog so you can learn from the pro!
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Cooking
I started writing this post this morning and I SWEAR I hit the save button before I walked away from my computer, but I came back and it was gone. Sad day. Good thing it's not a super long post or anything, so I'm just gonna write it again.
I love to cook. I have always enjoyed cooking, I am just not super great at it. I can cook a few things really well, but I usually make a HUGE mess doing it. I have not figured out a good method for organizing my kitchen and organizing my cooking skills. There are times when I literally feel like I use every pot/pan/dish that I have and that every surface in my kitchen is covered with something. This combined with the fact that I live by myself equals me not cooking very much. Living alone makes it easy to eat convenience foods that are pre-made, pre-packaged and basically not that great. So one of my things on my list of things I want to do in 2011 is cook more. I want to figure out how to cook better food with better ingredients and with a better method of cooking. (I think that sounds oddly like a Papa John's commercial.) This is a HUGE goal so I decided that a good place to start would be to pick a cookbook I own and cook everything in it. I picked a small one. Ha! I am going to cook everything in the GAL cookbook I have from college. The foods in it aren't necessarily super healthy or anything, but cooking anything at all is a good place to start I figured. Plus they are recipes that were submitted by my sorority sisters (therefore my friends!). I will let you know how it goes.
Oh, and speaking of cooking...tomorrow night (hopefully, unless plans change) I am going to be making homemade pizza. It's not from scratch or anything. I am using a crust mix and already made sauce, but adding lots of fresh veggies and good mozzarella cheese. Like I said, it's a start. Maybe someday I will get ambitious and make pizza sauce from scratch, but that's not happening this week! I hear that it's not actually that hard, so I have faith that I can do it. Tonight I will finally be making chocolate covered pretzels. I was supposed to make them last week and it never happened. If I remember correctly I was going to make them on Thursday, but got distracted with watching Jersey Shore. Ha!
I am hoping that by cooking more I can develop a healthier relationship with food. I will be able to control what goes into the things I am eating. I will be able to make foods that I really want and keep learning to do it in a healthier way. I still love cooking, I am just hoping to minimize the mess and be able to love cooking more often than I already do! It will be a fun experiment if nothing else!
I love to cook. I have always enjoyed cooking, I am just not super great at it. I can cook a few things really well, but I usually make a HUGE mess doing it. I have not figured out a good method for organizing my kitchen and organizing my cooking skills. There are times when I literally feel like I use every pot/pan/dish that I have and that every surface in my kitchen is covered with something. This combined with the fact that I live by myself equals me not cooking very much. Living alone makes it easy to eat convenience foods that are pre-made, pre-packaged and basically not that great. So one of my things on my list of things I want to do in 2011 is cook more. I want to figure out how to cook better food with better ingredients and with a better method of cooking. (I think that sounds oddly like a Papa John's commercial.) This is a HUGE goal so I decided that a good place to start would be to pick a cookbook I own and cook everything in it. I picked a small one. Ha! I am going to cook everything in the GAL cookbook I have from college. The foods in it aren't necessarily super healthy or anything, but cooking anything at all is a good place to start I figured. Plus they are recipes that were submitted by my sorority sisters (therefore my friends!). I will let you know how it goes.
Oh, and speaking of cooking...tomorrow night (hopefully, unless plans change) I am going to be making homemade pizza. It's not from scratch or anything. I am using a crust mix and already made sauce, but adding lots of fresh veggies and good mozzarella cheese. Like I said, it's a start. Maybe someday I will get ambitious and make pizza sauce from scratch, but that's not happening this week! I hear that it's not actually that hard, so I have faith that I can do it. Tonight I will finally be making chocolate covered pretzels. I was supposed to make them last week and it never happened. If I remember correctly I was going to make them on Thursday, but got distracted with watching Jersey Shore. Ha!
I am hoping that by cooking more I can develop a healthier relationship with food. I will be able to control what goes into the things I am eating. I will be able to make foods that I really want and keep learning to do it in a healthier way. I still love cooking, I am just hoping to minimize the mess and be able to love cooking more often than I already do! It will be a fun experiment if nothing else!
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