Well I've spent the entire weekend entirely lost in gardening and cookery books. I just love looking through them and planning my 'dream garden' that one day, I hope I will have. If it doesn't materialise at least I will be able to dream about it. The other thing I like to do is plan different dishes to cook when Eden comes down especially so that I can teach her different techniques.
The gardening books fascinate me and although I have studied them again and again, I still manage to find a plant that's different, although usually unobtainable in my local garden centre. They seem to sell those that are 'in the current fashion' but there has been the rare occasion when I have made a real find and come home with something totally unexpected. Sometimes I think they get a few samples of some plants to see whether they will sell or not because if I don't buy it when I see it, the next time I go in the plant is gone.
With the cookery books, I have several that are well over forty years old and I love to compare the recipes in those with the recipes of today. What a difference! The basic techniques are the same but the kitchens are vastly different and we also have a much greater choice of foods so consequently more dishes to choose from.
When I was young the only pasta that we used to have was canned spaghetti in a synthetic tasting tomato sauce and if we had curry it was 'cook in the bag' although my Mum did make her own curry sometimes because Dad had spent some time in India and Burma during the war so he liked a good curry. The only problem was, the necessary spices and other specialist ingredients weren't available as we didn't have supermarkets, but Mum's 'English style' curries were very tasty.
Maybe when Eden is as old as me, she will find what we are cooking now is very old fashioned!
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