I was cooking for a bunch of Geologists, deep in the Canadian Rocky Mountains as a camp cook the summer I met Herb. Over the years I had a number of cooking jobs, starting when I was an Au Pair in Germany at age 17, where my Germany family said I wasn't allowed to go back to Canada until I had learned to cook spatzle three ways. From then on I seemed to always find my way into peoples kitchens to learn what they were making. I passed my love of cooking and food to Cori, she was eating with chopsticks by age four. We love to spend time in the kitchen, whether we are cooking old traditional recipes handed down by the matriarchs of our family, or trying to replicate a dish we had at a restaurant or saw on a cooking show.
My mother commented once that she loved watching how seamlessly we worked together while cooking in a kitchen. Even when Cori and I lived in different countries, we would text a picture of what we were eating or had cooked. I loved getting a call out of nowhere from Cori asking how to cook this or fix that. The best part of living back together is cooking for my family, especially since I now have all of Cori’s new kitchen gadgets and beautiful dishes from her wedding. It’s like playing with all new toys! It really makes cooking delicious meals for my family seem effortless. I am grateful and it’s a lot more fun sharing what I’m good at with the people that I love.
One of our family favorites for breakfast is...
Popovers
1 Cup Milk
1 Cup Flour
4 eggs
1 t vanilla
Preheat oven to 375, put muffin tin in while oven is heating up with a little bit of butter in each cup.
Once the butter is melted use a brush or paper towel to coat muffin cups so the popovers don't stick.
Beat milk and eggs together then add flour and vanilla and mix till smooth.
Fill muffin cups to 1/2 full
Bake 20-30 mins
Serve with peanut butter and jam (Herb's fav), or Cori's favorite homemade apple butter and honey!
Similar to Yorkshire pudding these can also be eaten at dinner with gravy. Just replace the vanilla with salt and add cheese and/or chives.
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