The Daniels: Cooking Up Memories: Introduction

August 1, 2014

Cooking Up Memories: Introduction

I received a lot of recipes when David and I got married. My sisters-in-law hosted a shower with family and close friends and had everyone bring recipes with them and then I received a box of recipes from a co-worker and some recipes from a few other friends included in our wedding gifts. I was so grateful to get all of those, because I really do love to be in the kitchen!

I realized about a month ago that I've made some of the things I received recipes for, but not nearly enough of them. These are the favorite recipes of some of my favorite people-so I decided to make a plan to try them all. I organized them all into different categories and made a list of all of the recipes to easily access... and when I made the list it just so happened that there were 51 recipes. So it seemed perfect to try to cook through all of them in a year... and what better time to start than right after our 1st anniversary? So in Year 2 of the Daniels home I will be attempting to cook all of the dishes I received recipes for when we got married.

“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
― Laurie Colwin

I was searching through different cooking quotes this afternoon trying to come up with a good title for this series of blog posts. I really liked the one I found here that talks about the history and wisdom from others in cooking--because I definitely need that! And then I found a kitchen vinyl wall art that had the family name and said "cooking up memories since ____" So I decided cooking up memories was a good way to summarize these posts. Looking at the memories I have with each person who gave me a recipe. Thinking of the memories they have with their families. And thinking of all the memories our family is making!

I made my first one for the year this past week, so I'll write about it in a separate post. But for now, I'm looking forward to cooking up lots of memories this coming year--in and out of the kitchen.

A Year Worth of Recipes:

1. Carolina Pound Cake