Susie Homemaker

So, after seeing the movie Julie and Julia and a comment a friend made about cooking her way thru the Betty Crocker cookbook, I came up the perfect blog topic for me, instead of random rambling! :) I have decided to take it upon myself to CHALLENGE myself! I am not one that really likes to cook! Well, I should not say I dislike cooking itself, but rather the prep and clean up times! It can become time consuming when you prep it all, slop it onto the table, and then have to clean it all up! Actually, it gets kind of old having to load the dishwasher alone, wash the dishes I don't trust in the dish washer, run the dishwasher and then put the dishes up! So, cooking takes a lot of time, and I would rather just let someone else cook FOR me! But, with having a budget cut back, I'm going to challenge myself! Are you ready folks -- Naw, I'm not going to cook my way through Betty Crocker nor Taste of Homes (one of my favorite cook books mind you). . .I, Stacey Lynn, am going to pull out all of the cook books I have (and lemme tell ya folks, there are a LOT of them), get the Swiffer duster out and dust those bad boys off, and them I'm going to cook a new meal TWO times a week! I'm challenging myself to serve my family dinners more often at our table. Yeah, so it might be a wee bit cheaper to hook the boys up with Happy Meals, or grab subs on my way home from the gym, but I need to show them that I do know how to cook more than tuna casserole, tacos, spaghetti and hotdogs (Ok, I do make more than that, but it's late and my brain isn't cooperating!)

So, I'm starting this week. :) Wednesday will be the first day. :) I'm not setting a time limit for myself like Julie did. HOWEVER, I'm opening up my challenge to YOU! My faithful readers! All 10 of you -- and I think my Dad is trying to get counted twice!

If you want to submit a recipe to me to try, send it to me! (StaceyPagan@verizon.net) But I do have to warn you -- it cannot be loaded down in carbs because the ol diabetes will not appreciate that, and remember I'm gong to be serving the meal to a 4 and 7 year old, so they have to be a wee bit kid friendly. Now, it doesn't have to be octopus in noodles (hot dogs on top of green ramen noodles), but it cannot be something like Steak A La Mode (HA HA) or something like that!

So, be on the lookout, b/c I'm going to post the recipe I try (if you submit it, your name will be in the blog as a thank you) as well as my thoughts prepping it and what my family thought of eating it :)

My next door neighbor when growing up with could me Susie Homemaker because I liked to cook (well and I had to do things like hang clothes on the line to dry so the entire world could see my bloomers and over the shoulder boulder holders when I was a kid). . . so, now I'm going to put it to the test. . . . beware world, here comes Stacey Homemaker