I found recipe cards recently that said that, and I had to buy them for myself. I am not a good cook. I don't enjoy cooking, which means I don't do much to get better. I like to bake, but only if I am in the mood. Mostly because I hate to clean up.
I am a substitute teacher for the rest of this school year, which means I generally only work a couple of days a week. However in November and December I worked several weeks for one teacher, and for the first time in about 13 years, I was working a forty hour week. I hate to cook under normal circumstances. Exhausted after teaching kindergarten all day? I did NOT want to cook! I think I spent half of my subbing salary on the take out we ate that month. I managed a few good meals, most from the crock pot.
Next school year, I hope to be teaching full-time. This means I need a plan to keep away from the take out, or I will weigh 700 pounds in short order. I need to figure out some resources for freezer cooking and crock pot cooking to keep us eating in a fairly healthy way.
I like A Year of Slow Cooking, and I own the first cookbook. In visiting the site to get the link for this blog post, I noticed there is a second book out. Somewhere, buried deep in my Iomega storage drive is a file a friend sent me a couple of years ago with tips and recipes for freezer cooking. I think I'm going to need more than that. What tips do you have or resources can you point me to that will help me get a handle on simplifying the dreaded chore of cooking dinner?
