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Cook Books – The Way to Your Partner’s Heart?

Cookbooks for a bored teenager

What do you do with a bored teenager?  Teach them to cook.  At least that was what I did.  I was a single mother with three sons and the oldest, at seventeen, had way too much time on his hands.  I bought several creative cookbooks and challenged him to make dinner for us with the recipes.  To everyone’s surprise, including his, he loved cooking.  Soon he was doing all of our cooking and baking and realized he had found his career.  When he left school, after winning several cookery contests, he attended the local catering college and is now on a path to being a top chef.

CookBooks – Help in the Recession

When my husband lost his job and I was the only one working, we both began to cut corners.  Our new budget worked out well for us as long as we stuck to it faithfully, and that meant not overspending on food.  Since my husband was now our official meal planner and maker, he invested in several cookbooks containing recipes which could feed an entire family for next to nothing.  He’s become the master of hearty stews, the king of casseroles, and an overall genius at cheap meals.  As a bonus, he has developed a love of cooking and has even created some of his own delicious meals out of cookbook recipes.

Cookery Books for Children

I had two sons and was determined that they would be somewhat intelligent about housekeeping and cooking.  Even when they were young I knew they may well have to keep their own home and cook for themselves or others.  When my oldest was about nine years old, I bought a series of cookery books for kids.  The boys were delighted to bake their first batch of cookies, make soup, and cook spaghetti.  One of the boys married and happily does the cooking at home while my bachelor son is just as much at ease ain the kitchen as under his car.  Teaching those  boys to whip up an omelette paid off handsomely.

Cookery Books – a Creative Medium

Most people I know have some sort of creative outlet that helps them get lost doing something they love and get over stress.  For some that is music, for others painting, and for me it is cooking and baking.  To me there is nothing as wonderful as following the precise directions in one of my many cookery books to create a masterpiece of a cake, roast, or even soup.  I love everything from choosing the perfect ingredients to putting the finishing touches on a perfect pie.  Painting and music are wonderful and I love them, but they can’t make a home smell like Heaven or light up my family’s faces as I present them with a mouth-watering meal.

Healthy Cookery Books

Like so many young people in the 1970’s my husband and I happily fed our young family foods like fried chicken, mashed potatoes, and lots of gravy. We were happy knowing they were getting nutritious meals.  By the time my sons were teenagers, I understood that we needed to change our  habits or risk health problems and obesity.  That’s when I began what my youngest son called my collection of healthy cookery books.  It was a challenge to create tasty but nutritious meals and snacks, but I did it and it paid off.  We all lost weight and the boys now take healthy eating for granted as well as us.

Be Creative with Cook Books

While most of my friends vent their creative instincts by painting, sewing, or music, I cook.  I learned long ago that nothing makes a good day better or a bad day bearable better than banging my pots and pans around.  From the time I was twelve and my mother began buying me a series of learn to cook books, I found that nothing soothed me better than whipping up a three-layer cake.  Nothing got me over a break-up faster than double-fudge brownies, and, in the time it took for me to create a  turkey dinner was all I needed to get over a stressful week.   My library of recipes has grown to take up an entire wall and my inner (pastry) artist is thriving.

Used Cookbooks

If you are looking to find various books with recipes, otherwise known as cookbooks, then you should be aware that you can find plenty of them online. All you have to do is start searching, and you will see that there are hundreds to be had.

Amazon has the widest choice – these are the cheaper options that often sit alongside new books for sale.

If you like to collect these type of recipe collections, then you can certainly find many of them for very reasonable prices. In fact, many times, you can even buy a bunch of them from Amazon and save on shipping costs. Take some time to shop online for these used cookbooks.

Great Grandma’s Cookbook

One of my earliest memories is watching my great grandmother cutting out recipes from her newspaper or magazines and glueing them onto blank notebook pages.  She would write notes under them and never cooked or baked without these homemade cookery books.  Eventually I inherited her collection and found that, as times and nutrional knowledge changed, so did the collection.  From my great grandmother’s cookbooks filled with rich sauces, thick gravies, and fried foods, my notebooks evolved into an entire section on healthier, low-calorie meals.  Of course, healthy or not, no one can beat her double-chocolate cake recipe, which I will never share with anyone.  It is safe and sound in one of her recipe books.

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