Cream Cheese overload

Well, it was an adventure, cooking for the Paula Deen contest. I may not ever be able to eat cream cheese again! And my poor husband, my official taste tester, nearly turned green after eight weeks of cream cheese.  But it was a lot of fun and very beneficial for my next adventure.  Going to explore writing a cookbook. I will start with my blog, share some ideas, and hopefully anyone reading can give my some feedback.

The recipes that I am interested in are family, multicultural, multigenerational, home cooking. Home cooking from all over the world that ended up being part of our cooking culture here in the United States.  We are all from somewhere else unless you are native american (food of which I would love to know about), but we have melted cultures into an amazing mix of the yummiest of foods.

TODAY'S COOKING


Today I am going to cook Italian.  My friends are staying with me because they are having work done on their house. Their heritage is Italian via Brooklyn. I have loved learning about the development of traditions that were spin offs from a combination of many regions of Italy and Brooklyn.  My favorite Brooklyn tradition is Sunday Gravy. When I first heard my friend JoAnn say she was making gravy,  I asked her where the turkey was. I only knew of turkey gravy, beef gravy, chicken gravy, but she was talking about RED gravy. A delicious meat and tomato sauce served over pasta, eaten every Sunday of their entire lives. I love this! So in honor of them, and since they have no kitchen today, I am going to bravely attempt to cook them their Sunday Gravy.

Am I nuts? She has been cooking and eating this her whole life and it is spectacular. Oh well, it will be made from love even if it doesn't taste as good as hers.

I will post the recipe I make up for this later today, after they have tried it. Wish me luck.