If you were a student of Cuizoo Cooking School, here are the recipes we used in class. Enjoy and keep cooking! Banana Bread and English Muffin Bread Burgers and Roasted Potatoes Pumpkin Whoopie Pies Mac and Cheese and Apple Crisp Fried Rice and Fruit Skewers Tortillas and Quesadillas Tiramisu Yule Log Spaghetti and Meatballs Meatball … Continue reading Cuizoo Cooking School Recipes
Pandemic Abs. Also Recipes for Crispy Grilled Chicken Wings and Black Beans and Rice
I have read several articles about how to be gentle with yourself during the lockdown. Personally, I think that's weak. I have been waking up at 4:00 or 5:00 AM each day. I am intermittent fasting until at least 1:00 PM. We are having Meatless Mondays. My jeans still fit. I gave up wine last … Continue reading Pandemic Abs. Also Recipes for Crispy Grilled Chicken Wings and Black Beans and Rice
Homemade Pasta and Tomato Sauce
When you strip away most everything, what are you left with? What do you do? What do you want to do? I've been thinking about this a lot over the last two weeks. I've been watching how we are all responding to being locked down and socially distant. There is no doubt that these are … Continue reading Homemade Pasta and Tomato Sauce
Lockdown and Hibachi-Style Fried Rice
Friends, these are crazy times. In Illinois, we are officially on lockdown due to Coronavirus. While we are afraid, I'm already seeing signs of hope and grace in the midst of great pressure. I'm sure I will be writing a lot more in the days and weeks (and months) to come. For those not in … Continue reading Lockdown and Hibachi-Style Fried Rice
Fall 2019 After School Classes
Here are the details for Cuizoo Cooking School this fall! Contact me at cuizoo@cuizoo.com or message Cuizoo on Facebook to sign up! Fall 2019 After School Class Schedule and Topics
Cookbook Classics: The Art of Simple Food
When recipes became widely available and searchable online, it changed the way many of us cooked. No longer did we go to our trusted recipe files or our shelves full of cookbooks and decide what we were having for dinner. There were elements of both trust and experimentation in our old cooking libraries. Some days … Continue reading Cookbook Classics: The Art of Simple Food
Babies and Books
Parents ... today is April 5, 2016 and I have a cautionary tale. Right around the time Max was born, I realized I needed to redo Madeline's baby book. I had been very good (first born!) with writing in it and saving every little thing. It was overstuffed and the binding was breaking. I had … Continue reading Babies and Books
Velvety Cauliflower Soup with Turmeric, Sunflower Seeds, and Truffle Oil
This summer was not kind to my waist line. Or to my hip line, ass line, and stomach line, for that matter. Packing and moving meant pizza and beer on many more nights than I'd care to admit. And if unpacking one spice bottle from twenty sheets of packing paper burned a lot of calories, … Continue reading Velvety Cauliflower Soup with Turmeric, Sunflower Seeds, and Truffle Oil
On the eve
This screen is empty, but my head is not. It is filled with thoughts of growth and change and transition. And somewhere in the mumbo jumbo of to do lists, laundry, cooking, packing, and anxiety attacks, I am trying to make sense of it all. Tomorrow is the last day of elementary school for my … Continue reading On the eve
If It Weren’t for the Internet, I’d Be Wearing Mom Jeans
I read this article today from Paul Miller, who you may recall was the dude who went off the Internet for a year and got paid to tell the story of his experience. I remember reading (on the Internet) that he was going to do it, so I was somewhat interested in how it went. … Continue reading If It Weren’t for the Internet, I’d Be Wearing Mom Jeans