This thing called Food

Eric and I are cooking all of our meals for the first time in our lives. We've been richly blessed with other means of food service for the last 6 years, and before that, loving parents who fed us! Now that we're on our own, we find ourselves searching for new recipes often.

We enjoy cooking, both of us actually. It's probably because we both have a great love for food :) Despite our desire to learn, we find ourselves cooking variations of the same meals time and time again. Some of our favorites have become chicken and rice, pork and spaghetti. As of late, we've been scouring our cookbooks to find a few different meals. To our disappointment we haven't found much.

Most of our cookbooks are filled with great, amazing looking gourmet recipes that we lack the ingredients for. I'm sure we will build our spice cupboard over time, but until then we lack some of the ingredients necessary for gourmet food. We do not stock apricots, rosemary sprigs, fontina or smoked gouda cheeses in our home.

This leads me to my plea... Could you share a recipe with us? Some of our favorites have been passed on to us from our mothers, they are tried and true. If you have a favorite recipe (that's for the average person), please share! If we have the ingredients, we will try almost anything!