Daily Planner

“Get a daily calendar and write down the recipes you cook (on or around) when you make them/if you love what you cooked. Odds are you will do this a couple of times in 2026 and forget, no big, the point is to use the same book next year and the year after. Eventually you’ll have a planner filled with your version of seasonal recipes. Bonus if you write down who you fed. And Jesus, ChatGPT just translated my scribble into an actually legible recipe which is a game changer... (2024) Snowy Day Soup Made a large pot + set aside portion for G. Gemma’s portion didn’t have salt and it had an “iron bomb!” — chicken liver. Ingredients 2 carrots 2 onions 2 celery 2 medium turnips 5–8 fingerling potatoes (or any pot.) chicken stock dashi stock (or mushrooms) 1/2 cup barley 1 cup soaking beans (mixed bean) Seasonings: bay leaf salt (later) hot pepper flakes thyme, pepper Instructions Prepare fresh stock, add all veg to pot + beans. Simmer 1.5 hrs. Didn’t even sauté veg! Add barley + cook for another 40 min. Pull out Gem’s serving. (In a sauté pan, fry/cook chicken liver. Add.) Notes make sure there’s plenty of stock for beans and barley. topped w/ pecorino cheese, could use parmesan. used leftover pulled roast chicken to bulk up as an entrée.”