Getting Creative in the Kitchen...My New Year's Resolution
Friday, Jan 27, 2012
Well it’s one month into the New Year, and I am proud to say that I have stayed true to my new year’s resolution thus far. How many of us have made the resolution to lose weight, learn something new, or one of the many things you know you’ll most likely fail at? Instead of setting impossible goals this year, I have decided to make a resolution that I know I can actually follow through with…to broaden my culinary horizons.
For me expanding my culinary horizons comes in the form of finding new and delicious gluten-free options for my family and my new cookbook. Thus my resolution helps me be more productive on my work, while really getting my family involved too. Every free day I’ve had this past month has been spent in the kitchen recipe testing. If you ask my kids if they want one more gluten-free meatball or piece of lasagna, they might scream. My middle daughter Sarah, who is a celiac and the entire reason for this cooking transformation is helping me stick to my resolution and writing the book with me. My other two kids could usually care less about cooking and sometimes wish we could go back to our old gluten eating ways. However if you take a peak inside my kitchen lately, you will find one of those two doing their own recipe testing and expanding their culinary horizons as well. Some family favorites so far are Gluten-Free Spaghetti Pie and Gluten-Free Mashed Potatoes. We are continuing our recipe testing as a family and broadening our culinary horizons together. I am confident this is one resolution I will follow through with…and have a blast doing so!