Cooking with a Cause

I have always had a love of recipes and recipe books. If I see a recipe book I almost always have to have it.  I get it from my mother.  Then I married a chef and expanded my love of food and recipes even more.  Am I a chef?  NO, not by any means.  Just your average mother and housewife making dinner for the family.  But I do love to experiment in the kitchen.  My great love is baking but all recipes hold an interest for me.  I even find myself wanting to make things I don't like because they sound interesting.  So I use my family and co-workers as guinea pigs for my recipes.  Some turn out...some don't.  That is the point of this blog.  You will travel with me through my Kitchen Kraze Experiements. 

Here is how it works.  I find a recipe I want to try - I make it - My family rates it - And I tell you about it.  The rating system is extremely simple.

We don't like it...recipe goes in the trash never to be seen again.

It's OK...We may keep it and change it next time or we just throw it out.

We LOVE it....It goes in the family cookbook (my cookbook which is pretty much a binder with recipe slots) 

The idea is to build a book of recipes we LOVE as a family and pass it down one day to my daughter.

You may wonder where I get all these recipes.  As I mentioned before I have tons of recipe books but I also get recipe emails which I read and print interesting recipes from.  I then take the printed recipes and file them in catagorized folders.  When I need a casserole, or a dessert, or a side dish I just start searching through my folders and presto...I almost always have a recipe to try.  I have hundreds of recipes and there is no way I will ever make all of them in my lifetime.  Well, maybe if I stopped collecting recipes today but the fact is, I will continue to collect recipes forever.  So I will just have to do the best I can. 

I won't be adding a new recipe everyday because I don't cook everyday.  However, I may add some I have tried in the past as I go. 

So Enjoy my Kitchen Kraze and leave your comments.  I'd love to know if you try a recipe, love it, hate it, change it, etc.