cook at home more

Tonight I think I am going to make Chili while my daughter is at dance class, that way she can come home to a nice warm dinner! Corn bread sounds good too :)

I want to enjoy my kitchen and try new recipes.

The last few days I have been cooking at home and going home for my lunch break (my poor daughter has been sick). Tonight I will be making cornish hens!

We have been eating at home more and more. I have been making delicious home cooked meals. I now have a refrigerator full of left overs! Anybody hungry?

I have been feeling like I want to cook, a LOT. I think when we are fully done remodeling the kitchen I will be even more anxious. Tomorrow Zoey and I will be making home made chicken and dumplings, while we work on going through her clothes.
My poor child has hit a growth spurt. She is still very thin, but she has grown very tall! She has outgrown all of her dresses. It amazes me how childrens size 6 is too short for her! She’s only 5!
We have to go through all her clothes so we know what we need to buy for school.

This week we ate at home 4 times. It was nice spending the time together.

I used to cook a lot, now my kids cook quite a bit and they are good at it. I would like to do more menu planning, shopping and cooking because I think that would be best for my family. I am hoping that this will bring us closer. My biggest hold up is my kitchen. I just don’t want to be in my kitchen. This will change when I move because I want to enjoy food and cooking the way I used to.

I really need to start making meals at home more often. It’s cheaper and healthier most of the time. I need to stop spending money and loss some weight so this will be helpful.

I’ve always enjoyed cooking, just never felt I had the time to do it every single night. BUT lately I have been baking a lot. I have made some treats and brought them to work a couple of times. Sunday night I made brownies from items I had in the cabinet. I kinda felt like my grandmother who used to always have things on hand and could whip up anything! I felt creative. :) (maybe nerdy, but still creative too). And they were actually good. :)

And last night I got the crock pot out and tried a new chicken and sweet potato recipe I found, while my husband skinned the chicken I made the ‘base’ in the crock pot; sweet potato sliced, pineapple and juice, chicken broth and made up a bbq sauce. We let it sit over night and it’s cooking right now while I’m working. How can you beat that?! I love crock pots.

I feel like I’m on a roll with cooking (no pun intended…lol). I usually get this way in the winter, but I’m thinking if I cook at home more, I could bring left overs and work on the goal of NOT eating at my favorite cafe EVERY day, just going for tea or a small piece of chocolate. :-)

You know, I’m saving so much money cooking at home and it’s really satisfying. Get out of the eating out trap! Cooking can bring you joy!