A New Beginning

I know it has been months since I posted one recipe on this blog and then nothing. I have actually been doing a lot of thinking about what I wanted to post on here. I started to write out recipes several times but nothing seemed just right. Then it hit me I was heading down the wrong blog path. I had planned for this to be just a general cooking/recipe blog but there are so many of those out there already. I decided I wanted to narrow the focus down a bit but then I had to decide how I wanted to do that. After several months of false starts I settled on the idea of recipes for 1 or 2 people.

I know how hard it can be to find recipes for small households. Right now it is just my teen age son and I here. He goes to his dad's house every other weekend so those weekends it is just me. I know when I search for recipes it is hard to find ones that are sized for one or two people. It seems like most of them are for at least 4 or 6 people and some for even more. Unless I want to eat the same exact meal all weekend on the weekends he is gone I had to get creative. So for the last several years I have been collecting and creating recipes that make just one or two servings.

So that is going to be the focus of this blog. I will be sharing recipes for just one or two diners. Some of them will be our family favorites that I have adapted to smaller quantity. Some will be ones I have found that were already smaller but I have tweaked and put my twist on. And others will be things I have come up with along the way. I get inspired all the time for new recipes.

The recipes I post will be ones I have played around with and worked out the bugs. I think we all know that cutting a recipe down is sometimes not as easy as it sounds. Sometimes things just don't work the same with you change the amounts. Especially when we are talking about baking. You can be assured that every recipe I post on here I have actually tried. Most of them I will have made several times you will get the version that I liked the best.

It doesn't matter it you are just starting out on your own and learning to cook. Or if you have raised a family and now you are having to scale down from the large portions that growing teens need. Or maybe you have always cooked for just one or two people and you are looking for some new inspiration.

Along with recipes I hope to share with you some of my other tips and tricks for cooking so that you don't have to spend a hours in the kitchen. That is kind of my trademark. I love to make recipes that look like they took hours but are really easy.

There will also be a lot of what I call “investment cooking” those are things that you might spend a bit more time on and make a larger quantity but they are designed to be stored for really easy meals at a later time. Some of those are going in the freezer and some are going in the pantry.

So I hope you will hang around, check out my recipes and let me know what you want to eat.