MY DINNER TABLE

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Let’s cook dinner together

I am a grandmother, my name is Claudia and I cook dinner at home. Let me take you into my kitchen and show you how I do it.

What I have learned has come from other people in my life, cookbooks or cooking shows. I don’t use trendy equipment. I stick to the basics. It’s easier that way!

Show and Tell

In our recipes I will show you step by step how to make it from beginning to end. And I will tell you why we are doing or using something. I want you to learn a lot more than a recipe when you make dinner with me. I want you to learn something about cooking you didn’t know before.

Knowing why

Learning “why” you do things opens the gate to your journey on making dinners. When you know the “why and when and what” of ingredients and cookware, techniques and temperatures, the process of cooking becomes a lot easier. And a lot more interesting too.

Easy means you know how

I know how frustrating it can be when there is a task at hand and someone who has done it a million times tells you it’s easy just before you get lost in their first sentence of explaining it! Unless you really absolutely have do it yourself you decide this isn’t for you.

That has happened to a lot of people when it comes to cooking. Somewhere along the way it sounded way too complicated so cooking seemed more like a chore than something you were going to enjoy doing.

It’s not difficult you just didn’t know what they were talking about.

When was cooking fun?

Do you have any memories of cooking with your grandmother or an aunt or maybe just a friend?

If you do, you know that cooking can be fun, interesting and inspiring. You saw the ingredients coming to life. While you were watching the ingredients come together and you started smelling the recipe cooking, you started looking forward to eating it. And when it was time to eat, it tasted so good!

I know it may be hard to believe, but cooking dinners at home doesn’t have to be a dreaded task. If you have what you need at hand and you know what you are doing, it can be a rewarding experience. It can be fun working with everyday ingredients to make a meal. And it tastes better not only to you, but to everyone else that’s sitting at your dinner table too.

What’s better than a good meal? A good meal you made yourself, just like when you helped your grandmother in the kitchen. Home cooking has it’s own rewards. Not only does it taste good, you can feel good about eating it because you know what is in it.

We?

WE are me and my grandparent friends.

We want you to know that cooking dinner at home is not like a life sentence of hard labor. I learn new recipes and new things about cooking all the time and often from one of them.

I write about their recipes as well as my own. We want you to eat well without spending lot of time or money. We know you can do it.😊 How do we know? We had to squeeze feeding our families into a hectic life on a limited budget too.

Didn’t we my dear friends?

Want to give it a try?

Pick a recipe and cook along with me. You will learn a lot in just one recipe. You don’t have to be a beginner. There’s always something new to learn about when it comes to cooking. I think we have something for everyone.

Let’s get cooking

Claudia