eat out less... or at the very least try to have at least two meals a day for a while in my place (healthier, relaxing, better for the soul)

Surprise, surprise! The family jumped all over the idea of writing a book about food and each person is thinking about it and on their own mentioning it to me and coming up with suggestions for styles, content, and format.

Just today, my son has come up with a way to turn the experimental cooking process into an even more elaborate trial and error recording method and to create a chemical and process document of observations based on heat, temperature, reduction… all scientific experiments and data modules that will pair alongside his future college chemistry lab curriculum.

I wonder if we ought to name the book “The Petri Dish: 101 wonderful recipes for health and nutrition scientifically prepared in the home school kitchen”. Copyright that title to Connections Prep, all 43 rights reserved. Hopefully, all the food will all be so tasty there will be no nasty leftovers growing in the back of the fridge for weeks. :-)

Signed,

ME

He who has fed a stranger may have fed an angel.
- the Babylonian Talmud

Eating at home is always something we like to do, but as much as we are on the road and out and about in our community it makes cooking less than practical in all actuality.

To make this goal more attainable for me, I’m getting ready to propose a special writing project for myself and my family. It’s a project that has been on the table for years, but the timing was not right. Now, however, I think we are finally ready.

We are all in agreement that the time has come to focus on nutrition to maximize health, focus, and energy. We also agree that the foods we create at home seem to rival or surpass most of the place we pay to eat.

My thoughts are if we come up with one new recipe a week, we’ll have a decent enough platform to write articles about what we are eating. If we follow a scientific model of proceeding, then we can document our hypothesis and experiment steps, methods, and planning.

If I do the research and the guys do the experimenting, I’d like to see us put together a book of healthy and delicious successful favorite recipes.

Fortunately, it won’t just be us who have to do all the tasting. We come into contact with large groups of people regularly, so we have a captive guinea pig audience available to taste test our final “successful family recipe” theories.

My guess is that a project like this will be incredibly fun and ultimately be both healthy and soul nourishing.

If we come out of it with a great book to pass down to the next generations of our family, I’ll be delighted. If we come out with a publication-worthy item that actually goes out to sate the culinary whims of the finest of epicurean strangers?

That kind of cool project success would definitely have to be all thanks to our collective muses and be 43 heaps of angelic blessings. If it’s meant to be, we shall see! Our kitchen is open, ready, and willing… and so are we.