Use A Daily Planner as a Seasonal Recipe Situation

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.