What are your cooking resolutions for 2024?

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What are you planning on doing differently in the kitchen in the new year? I asked this question in our Food52 collective (https://www.facebook.com...) and so far, eating more vegetarian/vegan meals and cooking more often on weeknights are tied. (You can see the ones I chose!)

Nancy · Answer

Mindy - good to hear! Hope you keep increasing cooking and food prep to your current abilities.
By the way, there is a YouTube food blogger from UK who has a gadget review series where he often includes/praises those useful for people with disabilities o limited ability to use tools. If you’re in that group, look at his gadget reviews.

LeBec F. · Answer

nancy, so happy to see your 52 activity,as always. i couldn't find any 'reply' button to reply to the original question, so i'm going through your portal.[For a number of years i have been cooking-inactive due to becoming mobility-handicapped,] but i have recently been 'reborn into 52'!
my new resolutions have been to jump full-force into the exciting world of mediterranean food, grains, greens and spices. wow, it is some world! i have been exercising what i am learning by making a new recipe every one or 2 days,with the essential physical help of my husband. i hope to relearn how to post my recipes and participate on the hotline, [which i have started to do.]

Nancy · Answer

Wendy - good luck with teaching cooking in a community kitchen! I’ve done it, found it rewarding and here are some ideas that worked in our course:
• plan menus around grocery items unfamiliar to your clientele so they can use them and broaden their menus;
• have people cook in teams, so they have more fun and help each other with skills;
• if possible, make the last session a feast and have games and prizes (including a grocery store gift card)….increases attendance and go out on a high note!

Wendy · Answer

I am vegetarian, so I don’t need to make that resolution.
Some of my previous resolutions are to not use or ration and count paper towels, plastic wrap, freezer bags and single use plastics. I am happy to say that I have been really successful with these.
This year I have two resolutions. The first is to expand my vegetable garden. The second is to share my cooking skills. I have been asked by a couple of my kid’s millennial friends to help them learn to cook so they can wean their families off of Door Dash and Hello Fresh. I am so excited about this opportunity that I am going to see if I can volunteer my skills at a community kitchen!

Miss_Karen · Answer

Ditto that! My cookie file alone weighs about 8 1/2 lbs. Recipes written on EVERYTHING from envelopes, ATM receipts, old work schedules, napkins, college lined notebook paper from assorted classes etc.
I have quite the collection of recipes for boodles of things. If I start now I MIGHT make it through my soup file😉

Nancy · Answer

🤣🤣😜😆😝😹😂 Enough, Gammy?And speaking of your laptop, please please backup recipes (and other files for that matter) on a thumb drive or in the cloud.

Gammy · Answer

Where's the LOL emoji?   I have been collecting recipes for over 50 years!  Earliest ones from magazines and newspapers, now long gone, are on paper so fragile now.  More recently recipes are bookmarked (heaven forbid my laptop dies!).  I have these categorized in folders, but recently had to add a folder labeled  ***TO TRY ASAP so I could find quickly.  There is no way I can cook EVERY one of these if I live another 50 years!  Good luck to those who try!!

Nancy · Answer

So, like Julie and Julia, but from many recipe authors?!

Lori T. · Answer

My resolution is to eliminate all the "orphans" which collect in the fridge and pantry, reduce our household food waste even more, and eliminate as much single use paper/plastic as humanly possible.

Nicole D. · Answer

Love these. One person in the collective said she planned to begin cooking every recipe she had ever saved or bookmarked—a challenge that would take all of us years I bet.

Gammy · Answer

Investigate and actually cook more recipes featuring beans!  Not necessarily vegetarian,  but using meat more as a condiment or minor ingredient.

Nancy · Answer

Continue making soups, both meat and vegetable, especially in cold weather, to use as an easy quick meal from the fridge.

What are your cooking resolutions for 2024?

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