And so we begin...........

Hello All!


I have created this new blog as a prelude to my upcoming book of the same title as this blog. The book will be a cookbook geared towards young woman (but certainly not only for them) with lots of different types of home-style recipes which sometimes may have a little tweak here and there to modernize it a bit.

I want this blog and my upcoming site to be more of an interactive cookbook if you will. I want to share my recipes and tips that I have learned throughout the years with you. Whether you are wondering, "How do I get my meat sauce to be more Bolognese style and less chunky?" or "How do I cook, from scratch Banana Pudding?" I have those answers and I will share them with you here on this blog and at my site.

As well I would like to help you come up with great recipes for whatever food is perplexing you for dinner tonight. I am great at coming up with recipes when my pantry is down to its bare bones, but I know most aren't. I will also use this blog to share my tips on making your food stretch when your funds are tight for the week. I come from a family of seven and I definitely learned how to make a little money feed a lot of people, and I will show you how to do that too.

Well you maybe wondering, what qualifies me to teach you anything about cooking like his Mama? And why the title "Cook it like his Mama"? Well, first off I grew up with a mother who catered. My mother was not an educated chef, she just had a love and passion for cooking and God blessed her to be good at it too! Although she worked full time as a Mail Carrier, she managed to keep a part time catering business running with no formal advertising or marketing. She was simply good and once someone tasted her food, they spread the word and so did her business. So I grew up helping to make all this wonderful food she catered. I have been cooking since I was about nine years old. My earliest memory of catering is that of my sisters and me sitting around the table rolling up hundreds of turkey roll ups for a catering job one day.

Now, my mother has retired from her Mail Carrying position and has decided to finally fulfill her dream in opening a restaurant. I will be sure to let you all know once she opens, so you Indianapolis peeps can go and check her out. Nonetheless now I cook on my own and I guess I have been blessed with my mom's talent because I have noticed that I too find enjoyment in cooking, and maybe for a different reason than my mom has. I like to think of cooking as art. When I am creating a new recipe or tweaking another one, I imagine it to be similar to painting an abstract picture. Most of the time I just throw things together that seem like they work well and I just see what comes out. I personally believe that is how cooking should be done, because you never know what great masterpiece you will come up with till you try. Plus, it is only food you can't kill it so if you mess up just try and fix it and if you can't than discard and start from scratch like a blank canvas.
I decided to write the book, which spawned this blog, because I felt it was needed. I have so many of my young girl friends who call me asking me how to make traditional home-style foods, or wanting to know a recipe for chicken because that is what they have in the fridge that day. I thought man there needs to be a cookbook for all the young women out there (and men too, lol) who do not know how to cook traditional home-style foods. They may not know because either they had no interest in learning when they were young, or maybe they grew up in a house (like many people have) where their parents didn't really cook, they ate more boxed foods instead, or maybe they did learn but just didn't really care for their recipe, and want to learn a new way to cook the dish. Whatever the reason, I just felt their needed to be a cookbook for those things presented in a related manner to today's young person.
So let us begin your cooking journey together. Ask away, what questions do you need or want answered? I will try and answer as many questions as possible each day. Send your questions to cookitlikemama@yahoo.com. Alright all let's get cookin!