Planning for Holidays

I'm planning out things to cook and bake for the holidays early. It's good to plan early so you will not be frantic when it is closer.

For Halloween I am baking cupcakes. For thanks giving I will help my mom with the turkey and I will probably do a pecan pie. For Christmas I will be cooking a maple glazed stuffed roast pork and a peppermint and chocolate torte.

Try to find great recipes to cook for the holidays. If there is ever an ingredient that you do not Luke in a recipe you can always substitute it with something else or just take it out.

The Martha Washington Cook Book

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Yesterday I received a cook book in the mail that I bought a week ago. It is the Martha Washington Cook Book! 

This book has be out of print for a long time and the last time it was printed was in 2004. The company had a contract say that after the specific number of copies had been printed they could no longer print it. The author Marie Kimball was allowed to study Marth Washington's cook book that was donated by her descendants in the mid to late 1800's to a museum. Marie Kimball used 200 recipes from Martha's cook book and shared information that was new to the world in 1940. 

This cook book shares information that was unknown for a long time about Martha. Martha actually supervised everything that was cooked in Mount Vernon and the "White Houses" in New York and Philadelphia. Every dish she supervised came from her cook book that was given to her from a relative when she was married to her first husband Daniel Parke Custis. After her first husband died later she married Gen. George Washington. When she grew older she passed down the cook book to her daughter and then so on until it was donated to a museum. 

If you want to learn more or buy the book please click on the link below the picture above. (There is a limited amount of books) 

Paula Deen's Weight loss

I was amazed when I read about Paula Deen's weight loss in people magazine! I am proud of her after many years of watching her cook and eat very unhealthy food she has finally changed her life around. I started watching her sons cooking shows (Jamie and Bobby Deen) and they were using her recipes but making them healthier. Her sons have changed the way they eat and now she has changed the way she eats!

Paula and her sons have inspired me and motivated me on changing my eating and workout habits. For years I have collected her recipes but I have never actually cooked them because I was so afraid of eating something that unhealthy. Now her sons have changed her recipes and I am definitely going to use them. I do workout and eat better than I did before a year ago but it is not good enough and I am going to do 100% better!

She was in denial about her type two diabetes but now she has done something to increase her health. Some people say that 30 lbs. isn't good enough but what they don't know is that is EXTREMELY well! She went from a size 18 to a size 10 and she is still working on her weight loss.  It is great after so many years to see she is finally getting healthy. I have always felt like her family was my family because they are so humble!

Anyone who has had a problem with weight and loves to cook and eat (me) should read about her weight loss and try some of her new healthier recipes. She inspired and motivated me and if you read about it you will definitely feel the same way!