Simply: Home Cooking

Cook from scratch. Be well.

Does regularly cooking from scratch using whole, healthful ingredients sound impossible because you don't have the time, organization, money, or skills to do so?

At Simply: Home Cooking, we help busy people take back their kitchens with a system that is beneficial to health, environment, and economy.

After going through the Simply: Home Cooking program, you will have:

• a kitchen system that maximizes time and money
• the best ingredients - those that nourish health, environment, and economy
• the proper cooking techniques to bring out the most flavor and best nutrition from food
• the basic recipes for simple dishes with myriad variations
• the ability to enjoy 3 home-cooked-from-scratch meals 7 days a week

Our menu of services is infinitely flexible and can be tailored to your individual needs.

Want to learn more about our program? Read about our services here.

Ready to get started? Contact me for a free consultation.

Looking for upcoming events? Sign up for the "What's Cooking?" newsletter here.

Join us for a 1/2 day workshop!

Help us share this flyer! Download and print it here:  Download Nourish Flyer 042613.

Beat the Sugar Blues Workshop re-run!

Hope to see you there! If you'd like to print out the flyer and post it at your place of work or play, you can do that here:

Download Sugar Blues 130303

Is FAT a four-letter word?

Join me and Jeri Shumate of Joyous Health and learn how and why to get beneficial fats into and harmful fats out of your diet!

Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 5:30pm
Salon M, 283 S. Zeeb Rd. in Ann Arbor
(in Scio Village Center, intersection of Zeeb & Jackson)

If you've been to one of our workshops before, bring a friend who hasn't, and get a thank-you gift from us!

If you would like to print out our flyer and post it or pass it on, you can download it here:
Download Beneficial Fats 130112 - thank you!

 

Simply Joyous Workshops!

Ready to make changes in your eating habits, but not sure where to begin?

Want to bring more healthful eating practices to your home/work/school/community?

Jeri Shumate of Joyous Health and I now offer healthy living workshops on a variety of topics to provide simple, practical answers to the difficult questions of how to improve eating habits for optimal nutrition and joyous health.

Here is just a taste of our offerings:

• Smart Nutrition for Busy People
• Beat the Sugar Blues
• Get to Know Beneficial Fats
• Eat for Energy
• Smoothies & Juices
• Superfoods at Work & School

For more details, Download Brochure 121009.

To schedule a workshop or series, call Jeri at 734-649-6831 or email us at jeriandliza(at)gmail(dot)com.

Shake the hand that feeds you...

...even when it's covered with fish guts! Here's my husband's first attempt at an iMovie - all about our trip to Lummi Island to meet the wonderful fishermen and women who provide fish for the AAWSM fish-buying club that I manage.

 

A big thank you to Dave, Keith, Lynne, Morgan, Ian, Connor, and Tanner for showing us what they do to bring us their delightful salmon.

You can read more about Lummi Island Wild Reefnet Salmon on their site and all about our trip in the Simply: Home Cooking Newsletter, What's Cooking? If you live in the Ann Arbor area and love wild-caugh ocean fish, email me about the buying club!

Sugar Blues Workshop Re-run!

If you missed it the first time around...don't miss it this time! Jeri & I are re-running the Sugar Blues Workshop on Saturday, September 22.

To help us plan, please be sure to let us know you're coming: RSVP via email to simplyhomecooking(at)gmail(dot)com.

If you know of someone else who might benefit from this fun, informative workshop, you can send them a link to the flyer or download and print it: Download Sugar Blues Workshop 092212.

 

Our Food Philosophy

• Know who produces your food and how they produce it—shake the hand that feeds you, and make sure that the person who grows your food gets a fair wage for doing it.
• Start with the best ingredients, know their value, treat them with respect, and enjoy them to the fullest.
• Eat a wide variety of beneficial foods: a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, a range of protein sources.
• Use whole, close to the source ingredients: the closer to the source, the higher the nutritional content; the more processed the food, the longer the shelf life...and the shorter your lifespan!
• Whenever possible, focus on SOLE foods (seasonal, organic, local, and ethically/sustainably raised): don’t be afraid to spend more on food—you’ll ultimately spend less on healthcare.
• Reduce the amount of packaging you purchase by buying whole, unprocessed ingredients in minimally packaged forms and by taking your own produce and grocery bags.
• Recycle ingredients whenever possible: saving vegetable scraps for stock, using different parts of vegetables for separate dishes, etc. will significantly reduce your waste.
• Reduce the amount of food waste further by composting what you cannot use.
• Plan ahead—don’t duplicate work: pre-preparation and batch cooking will save you time in the long run. Use the cooking technique that will retain the most nutritional value while also bringing out the most flavor and best texture of the ingredients.
• Master the basic cooking techniques, then don’t be afraid to experiment.

Consultations & Classes posted

You can now find a partial list of our consultations and classes here.

Or download the list: Download SHC_Classes 120528

Contact us with questions or to sign up!

Simply: Home Cooking Services

Deep down, we all know that cooking from scratch at home using whole, close-to-the-source ingredients is the most healthful way to nourish ourselves and our loved ones. And when we choose the best ingredients and cook them properly, we also decrease our impact on the environment and boost our local economy.

Yes, but...actually make breakfast daily? cook from scratch 6-7 nights per week? pack homemade lunches? all with almost no boxes, bags, cans, or jars involved? Sound like mission impossible? We're here to make this a mission you choose to accept!

With a little organization, some basic knowledge of ingredients and cooking techniques, and some prep time, you CAN do this.

And here's how we can help:

• A home cooking consultation will start you on the road to planning and executing a week's worth of healthful, homemade breakfasts, lunches, and dinners.
• A pantry cleanup will rid your shelves, fridge, and freezer of not-so-healthful foods.
• A grocery store tour will help you restock your kitchen with healthful ingredients.
• A farmers' market tour will lead you through that jungle of vegetables.
• Cooking classes - from the most basic food safety and knife skills to how to make everything come out at the same time for a fabulous Thanksgiving meal.

As a client, you will have access to workshops and class materials on the CLIENT section of our site.

Contact us today to schedule the first step. Cook from scratch. Be well.

Join me in my new (ad)venture!