You don't have to leave home to have an adventure. Just invite your neighbor to dinner.
Never refuse to host someone because you are intimidated by what they might need. Find out the details and make a plan. Here are some ideas from past experiences.
This is not a recipe; it is a cooking loophole. To practice sustainable hosting, make a plan that keeps your sanity intact. While planning for meals is helpful, planning for a feast is essential! Choose dishes that can be made one, two and even five days in advance. That way on feast day, you’ll warm things up, set them out, […]
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In my opinion, cooking is an umbrella term for washing, chopping, dicing, scooping, stirring, frying, steaming, roasting, rinsing, scrubbing, and drying. You can do one, some or all of these and in the end, if you end up with food you’ve been cooking. Sustainable cooking is the work that you do to provide satisfying food in a way that fits […]
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So, you’re going to drive to grandma’s house, eh? Over the river and through the woods, with the kids in the back? You need a plan. Please realize that you can host in any space that you occupy. Wherever you find yourself, it is likely that you have the ability to make someone else feel welcome and valuable. If you […]
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Here’s how I progress with knowledge. First, I do something terribly wrong. Then, after brooding about it, I do it again, sometimes with a mild improvement in the results. I continue this pattern of brooding and mild improvement until I have a passable result. I usually stop progressing there. If you want to read about how I hosted a crowd […]
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When my aunt, who always spends the holidays with us, was first diagnosed with diabetes, we all just flipped out. We thought that she needed sugar free everything and so did she. We thought she would feel left out if we had desserts and she didn’t have a special one of her own. We were wrong: she felt left out because […]
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