“I write to taste life twice”
Anais Nin
Anais Nin
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon
or not at all.”
While it may seem a stretch to put a recipe on a site about separation and divorce, I make the connection.
For me cooking for my children and having them walk into a house with a good smell- something homemade ready for them- a homemade soup after school, a banana bread or a roast chicken and mash potatoes dinner -has always felt like an expression of love and comfort .
When I first separated this was even more important- comfort came from good warm food made with love. It is always surprising how far these simple things go.
Food is something I am passionate about – I like to think about it, talk about it and participate in it. I remember eating melba toast once on a diet 20 years ago and thinking- this tastes like death.
This sums it up pretty well
Totie Fields
but -at the same time if you want to avoid dieting-
This is something I have now made for almost everyone I care about. It is like a big pancake- it is simple and yummy and fresh -my three requisites for cooking/eating. I have made it for 2, 4, 8 and 12 people (this one serves 4). -Enjoy.
dutch babies
4 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
oven 425F
throw a hunk of butter into an ovenproof dish and pop in oven while it is preheating to melt it.
mix all ingredients in bowl
pour into ovenproof dish
bake 20-25 minutes
dust with icing sugar, cut , serve with berries and maple syrup.
As Julia Child said you don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.
Want another easy recipe for a crowd of kids? click here for SMORES done in the oven. Big messy hit at art camp
Little art camper says in earnest after one of the campers tells us she is gifted.
www.artstudioforchildren.com