Oat Cookie Recipe + day dreaming

I've been going through my cookbooks, food magazines, printed recipes from random websites and scraps of paper with recipes scrawled across them in the preparation for finally creating my months worth of menus. Yeah its taking awhile, some of these are written in pencil on paper plates. I need to work on my recipe organization. I either don't write them down or I can't read whats written. Needless to say all of this has made me really want to cook rather badly. But alas, we lost power recently (lots of catching up to do) and with more than half the family (myself included) on a diet, the possibilities are rather limited. And most of my diet friendly recipes were on my computer, gee I'm glad I put those into the computer...

Anywho, since cooking is out for now I have been dreaming up the perfect meal day. The ideal menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Of course assuming budget and diet isn't a factor. Which it is but who cares, I'm having fun.

Random food musings...

Mommy's Party Eggs

I remember watching my mom make meals when I was little. The amazing smells making me more hungry by the minute. Waiting to eat whatever wonderful food she was cooking, I was never disappointed with flavor or creativity. 3 times a day, every day, she would prepare our food. I had no idea what it meant to make food healthier by making it from scratch. But that's what she did. Ketchup, mayonnaise, cakes, bread...you name it, she made it all from scratch. With whole grains & without sugar.

Today I am finding out more and more what a difference she made when it came to my health. And the desire to be as an amazing cook as she is :)