Recipes modified for people with mobility challenges or just general lack of cooking motivation!
I may have brought this up before, but one of my biggest struggles is finding ways to cook pasta. I was browsing through recipes when I saw a recipe that cooks the pasta right in the slow-cooker with other ingredients. This sounded promising. I definitely …
In the cold weather we eat a lot of soup. Soup is warm and filling and easy for me to make. Once in a while, when I haven’t planned a dinner and feel like making something, I have a few recipes I can turn to. …
What is my most popular wintertime dish with both friends and family? I’m always surprised it is not something more exotic, but even I love this one. Almost everyone raves about this soup. I have brought this soup as a housewarming gift, and also to …
Instant Pot Version I try to add vegetarian dinners to our dinner lineup. We definitely love meat in this house. We eat meat or seafood for most dinners. Why do I try to add at least one vegetarian dinner a week to our menu? Well, …
Sometimes I find something that at one time seemed gimmicky to me that is really useful now. Before the MS symptoms and the wheelchair, I easily browned ground beef and sausage with a wooden spoon or a spatula or whatever was handy. I remember seeing …
(Dabgatz Misov Macaron) I needed an Armenian dish for Epiphany or Armenian Christmas but forgot to plan for it. So, I decided to browse through my favorite Armenian cookbook. About 25 years ago, my mother gave me a copy of Rose Baboian’s Armenian-American Cook Book. …
What do I do when I have a lot of packages of bread left in my bread drawer? Luckily, we are not gluten free people and we love bread. Of course, we love all types of bread. If you look in my bread drawer you …
Bolognese sauce can be sublime. Real Bolognese sauce is creamy from the addition of milk and has depth from wine. Originally, I made the Marcella Hazan recipe as my go to. But, her recipe takes about 4 hours. I don’t have the ability to keep …
There are times that I have to use an actual knife. Sometimes other options like my food processor or kitchen shears just won’t do the job. I can’t really manage a large chef’s knife well and safely anymore, so I have turned more to paring …
Sour cherry pie has always meant Christmas to me. I don’t know why my family always has sour cherry pie at Christmas. It might possibly have something to do with the cherries being red. However, I’m supposing an even bigger reason is that it doesn’t …