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Take a Much Needed Cooking Vacation...Just Don't Make it Permanent You may or may not have noticed the lack of postings on my blog last week. I was on vacation with my family. We spent the week in the Muskoka region of Ontario having fun despite the lack of sun.

This wasn’t only a vacation from work but it also turned out to be a break from cooking. Many of the meals we enjoyed were made by others. We dined on cannelloni, beef kabobs, various pasta dishes and a few hamburgers thrown in for good measure.

The trick to taking a vacation from cooking is to not make it permanent because you don’t want to get stuck in a rut relying on expensive and often fattening conveyor-belt meals.

Think of the best meals you had on your vacation and let those thoughts inspire you to replicate them or create some new flavorful dishes of your own!

Posted by Brent (Cookapalooza) at 7/06/2009 Labels: Brent Garrell, Cookapalooza, Vacation from Cooking


