Julie and Julia

I finally watched the Julie and Julia movie tonight.  I thoroughly enjoyed it!

I know so many of you are sad that the tea room closed and in some ways I am too.  But I just love being home again.  I have forgotten what joy cooking brings to me.  This movie reminded me of it again. It also reminded me that I haven’t blogged in ages!

Before I opened the tea room, I cooked for my family all of the time.  But as time went on, my poor husband had to learn to cook as I was too busy cooking for everyone else.  I thought that might change when I hired my first cook at the tea room, but it seemed the tea room became busier and busier and took up more of my time.  My cooking resorted to easy dishes I could prepare in 20 minutes or less. We became a big fan of grilled cheese and soup :)

Now that I’m home again, I have rekindled my passion for cooking.  Today I spent 2 hours making enchiladas and had a ball researching and combining recipes and adding my own touches.  That’s what I really love to do, be creative in the kitchen.

Tonight after watching the movie, I decided that I will write one more cookbook.  I really didn’t think I had enough tea room recipes to fill a book, but I decided that many of you might enjoy my own dishes that I prepare for my family.  So that’s my new goal for 2010, a cookbook full of family recipes plus a few from the last months of the tea room. Yeah, a new project!  Stay tuned for more!

Amy