My January Menu For You!

Here's What To Cook For Breakfast, Lunch, and Supper

Hello my friends!

Before I begin, I wanted to offer a heartfelt thank you to our paid newsletter subscribers who have entered in 2024 with us. I’ve been around the block and seen the many iterations that online media has take over the years - community supported content, perhaps, is my very favorite one yet. Much of our content is and will continue to be free to the public, but as you can imagine, that brings with it certain vulnerabilities. The group of you who support us here on the paid newsletter offer a place of rest and nourishment for me creatively.

Just as you support our publication, we in turn support others that we enjoy. It’s a meaningful and heartfelt way for us to say “We value you!” and “Keep going!”. So first and foremost, thank you for gently whispering those words in my ear every time you open an email, interact with our content, share it with friends, and send us your $5 of support each month. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I, in turn, want to offer you something of value. Something that goes beyond “Thank you!” and puts something of value into your life - perhaps something that inspires you, saves you time, or encourages you to keep going in your from-scratch efforts. I asked around and the resounding answer was HELP ME KNOW WHAT’S FOR DINNER!

Hey. Even Aretha Franklin, in the height of her fame, said the hardest part of it all was knowing what to cook for supper. I feel that.

Over in our Cooking Community, we offer 5 new recipes each month, along with instructional cooking videos for each one. That covers the “how” portion of what to do in the kitchen… but piecing it all together day in and day out when you’ve got a small school of pirañas to feed multiple times a day can be a sticking-point for many home-cooks.

This shows me a need in our community here - a need to piece together meaningful meals, meant to nourish ourselves and our loved ones, in a way that is is realistically possible. So I will be offering our paid-newsletter subscribers two menus each month, covering breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Each menu will cover 10-days worth of seasonal meals and will include notes on when to mix sourdough, soak beans, etc. This will cover 20 days of meals (assuming some of your days are too full for cooking, spent eating with friends, include special meals out, or include ‘fend for yourself’ meals).

Most of the recipes are fairly self-explanatory, but I may also include a recipe with the menu from the Cooking Community archive (such as the sourdough English muffin one listed below… yum!).

Don’t be fooled - quality meals take effort, perhaps even a little bit more than you’re used to. But that doesn’t mean cooking meals from-scratch needs to overrun your kitchen or life. It’s doable. I promise.

Here’s to a delicious second-half of January… let’s cook!