Words On Wednesday

After years of cooking, trying new recipes, tweaking those recipes to make them my own, and aggregating them into a collection, I want to make a cookbook. When my wife and I first got together, neither of us could really cook. We subsisted on ramen noodles and frozen chicken strips for the most part. Over time, we started branching out with new recipes we found online. The first few met with inconsistent success, but we got better and better as we learned new skills. Now, I can throw together ingredients on the fly and make something decent most of the time. Recipes are more suggestions and riffs on a theme, rather than explicit instructions for me. For a long time, we've been collecting those recipes on Google Drive. We stuck them in a folder shared between us, so we would know where to look when we needed to decide what to cook for dinner. I grabbed a template and created a  document to copy from when we want to make a new recipe card. We've been at it for years and this sys...

For the first time in the history of Words on Wednesday book reports, I’m covering a cookbook. I like to cook and I like to read. You would logically think that would mean I have a ton of cookbooks, but I really don’t. Usually, I either just get individual recipes directly from the internet or I go rogue and come up with my own stuff. We have a few cookbooks, but I use them more for inspiration than actual sources of recipes that I’ll cook directly “by the book” (pun intended). With “Big Little Recipes,” I actually first encountered the book through a social media post about a particular recipe in the book. In particular, the author highlighted the 2-ingredient sour cream dressing that is simultaneously easy and delicious. Easy and delicious are great individually, but they’re even better together. I was intrigued. I didn’t particularly want to buy a cookbook from a single recipe. Although I didn’t anticipate this book being available at my local library, I had to check it out. SURE EN...