Sometimes, the desire to cook can be overrun by busy schedules, demanding children, or just lack of know-how. Maybe it’s time to pull out grandma’s cookbook, and try a new family recipe each month!
How can time-tested family recipes improve my desire (or skills) to cook, you may ask?
Here are a few reasons to start with:
1. Family Time
Using a close relative’s recipe can become a fun thing for your whole family to do together. Yes, it can get messy with children, but they will remember it forever.
Cooking family recipes with your children will create lovely memories, and it is most certainly a satisfying culinary experience, to say the least.
Doing it once a month will also become a new fun thing to look forward to on a regular basis. Mark it in your calendar!
If you live alone, you can see family recipes as a moment to cherish generations before your time; relatives who have worked hard, so that you can taste, and experience, their love, even to this day.
2. Learning New Dishes
Instead of taking a cookery class, you can learn from grandma (or auntie, or dad, or whomever the recipes came from). Using family recipes once a month expands, and increases, your cooking skills, and you’ll create dishes you never thought to try.
If your grandma loved the food enough to share the recipe, you know it’s good. Think about it, after one year, you will have mastered at least twelve new dishes!
3. The Pressure’s Off
Last but not least, trying new family recipes can be less intimidating than trying random ones found online. Family recipes are more, well, personal.
You should take a deep breath, and let all the pressure of having to become a master chef fall off your shoulders, and just enjoy yourself!
