Hi, Blog Readers.
This week I don't have a particular cooking tip or method for you. Instead...
While the Summer months bring warmer weather and we travel to our friends and families for outside gatherings, why not consider getting a few good family recipes over your burger-steak-hotdog conversations and festivities?
Recipes that pass down through family generations are such blessings. While my joy and focus in cooking at the inn is on re-introducing American homecooking from the 1920's forward, my favorite recipes are ones in which I remember my Granny, or my Mom, or a family Thanksgiving. Beyond their taste, they bring a warmness to our hearts. My Mom's secret Pistachio Coffee Cake is always an inn favorite!! Thanks, Mom!
Compiling Aunt Tilly's Famous Potato Salad recipe, and Uncle Warren's great Steak Marinade (why are there so many recycled bottles in his bin?) needs to be written down and passed on...or potentially forgotten forever. Get them to e-mail you their recipe within a few days and let them know it is a treasure to your entire family.
To those avid writers and cooks reading this blog, these recipe books make a wonderful Holiday or Wedding Gift. Office supply stores help bind these family cookbooks beautifully! Craft stores have great resources for their artistic design. (Even 15 GREAT family recipes are worth their weight in gold!). It will be a rewarding experience, I assure you.
Hope this inspires you. Oh, and be sure to put a few of YOUR great recipes in the family recipe card book, too!!
Happy July to all! From the front desk of Inn at Long Lake...
Your Innkeeper,
Keith
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