Most recipes are either too complex with too expensive ingredients resulting in dishes way too fancy for average families.
Thus began my search for an entertaining easy-to-use book of recipes to feed any family on any budget...
a book that would really be used instead of relegated to the back of the bookshelf! I quickly discovered that if such a book were to be found, I'd have to write it.
And I did! I feel that we Babyboomers have let our offspring down.
We were taught to cook by our stay at home mothers and grandmothers.
We on the other hand, had to work and by the time we returned home after a day at the office, sent the kids to their rooms to do their homework, made sure they had their baths, washed a load of laundry and cooked dinner we found there really wasn't enough time for us nor the kids to learn to cook.
I became aware of this loss of passed on knowledge when my daughter told me she couldn't bring Deviled Eggs to Thanksgiving dinner because she couldn't peel the egg without tearing them up.
I had just assumed that she knew it was a matter of running cold water over the egg and peeling it while it was still hot.
Her admission of not knowing how to do something that I thought was simple because it was something I had done all my life prompted me to write my book of easy to prepare recipes with suggestions to change and/or add ingredients to fit the taste of the cook.
Plus, along the way, I sprinkled cooking stories from my childhood and life experience, plus tips and advice that we boomers got from our mothers and grandmothers before finding ourselves WAY too busy to pass onto our own offspring.
So take a minute, look over my book STIR, LAUGH, REPEAT and I'm willing to bet that there's a daughter, grandchild, "in need" in-law, neighbor or friend who'd enjoy my roundup of recipes, how-tos and hilarity!