Cooking....

So cooking here is a great thing, but there is a challenge at times. I have to admit I was very much a cook of convenience. While hubby was away, it would be most frustrating to spend an hour cooking something, to have the 2 kids snub there nose at it, or pick at it like birds. Yes mom, I used your phrase :) So often it was a drive thru, which is lacking here, or velveeta shells and cheese, or fish sticks, a giant ham slice. That way I would atleast know they would eat.
So now that we are here, and there is a grown up here besides me to eat, cooking is a good thing again. But, there are no conveniences. It's very much a cooking from scratch kind of place. The convenience foods that are available, are a bit pricey. So, a friend who came here with us has this fabulous cookbook. She said there is a website, and it's fabulous! I am so excited to try some of these recipes and get the book. She is called the Pioneer Woman. She too got uprooted and moved, to the country, not the desert :)
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/
So the woman cooks from scratch. Which is what they seem to do here. It is very economical. So, the hubby will be thrilled with this!