When my grandmother, Mimi as she was known to all who knew and loved her, passed away I was fortunate enough to inherit her recipe box. Actually, it was two very large boxes filled with hundreds of recipes. As I began looking through the recipes I realized that some dated back as far as the 1920’s and were handwritten on crumbling pieces of paper that were succumbing to the effects of time. I first set off to preserve these recipes in a more modern format on my computer. After typing 350 plus recipes and reliving many wonderful memories of being in Mimi's kitchen and gathered around her table, I realized that those were memories that I wanted to reinvent with my children and, hopefully, one day, my grandchildren. I made the decision to cook my way through each and every one of them with being as true to the original recipe as possible.

I have been off to a pretty good start, but I also asked myself question - What good is great food if you do not also share it with friends? So here I am, asking you to take part in this journey through Mimi’s recipe box with me.



Tuesday, November 2, 2010

I hate this time of the day . . .

especially when I have not organized myself for the week. Normally I like to go through all of my recipes and map out a cooking strategy for the week. But nope, I was just too lazy to get it done this weekend. So now I am stuck with the question of what to fix for dinner. I had better figure it out soon - after all, I have two hungry little girls about to come home from school. Apparently, we picked the absolutely worse school for our girls to go to since they do not feed them at all during the day. Of course, the principal claims they get breakfast, lunch and a snack. However, I find that very hard to believe, they come home to ravenous – like two little tornados spinning through the kitchen sucking in every crumb they can find and leaving a path of destruction behind them.


Okay, focus, back the matter at hand. I must be quick before the spinning commences. I know I have chicken (good start), but how should I cook it? Chicken and rice is always good together. Hummmmmm. That’s it – Lemon Chicken with Risotto and Peas. Sounds perfect – now if I can just get it to taste perfect I will be doing good.

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