DAY 20 is just turning out to be just as exciting and invigourating as DAY 1 !    Yesterday I had the brainstorm of creating a cookbook to accompany the boxes goiing to the food bank.   I love to cook and rarely use a recipe other than for baking which is a science!    I simply wrote down the meals I created for myseslf during my Starving Student days.   A time when a big kettle of soup/stew was always on the stove.  Ingredients would be added to it each day to make it stretch.  Sometimes it fed just me, other days it would feed a half dozen starving friends! 

I always had flour for making tea bisquits or flat bread.  Beans, lentils, split peas were stored in big jars.  Rice was a staple as was dry pasta.  Herbs and spices were purchased for pennies in the bulk store, a tablespoon of this, a cup of that.  Fruits and Veggies were in what we called the 'previously enjoyed' section - almost at their shelf life and sold at a huge discount.  Great for cooking with just not so wonderful if you wanted to eat them as is. 

So with these tough times upon so many, with large numbers of families struggling to keep food on the table, I thought a small cookbook to be available at the food bank for anyone who wants help spicing up the more humble ingredients, would be a good idea.

I have 25 recipes at the moment which I have printed today in little booklets.   Can I say I'm published?  

Tomorrow, I can drop them off and see what happens.  Hopefully, they'll want more.  I enjoyed making them and my wish is that they'll make someone's life a little bit more enjoyable for awhile.

See you tomorrow,

If you would like to read about my journey so far, I give you the posts below:

DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
DAY 4
DAY 5
DAY 6
DAY 7
DAY 8
DAY 9
DAY 10
DAY 11
DAY 12
DAY 13
DAY 14
DAY 15
DAY 16
DAY 17
DAY 18
DAY 19