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How becoming an empty nester changed the way I cook

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“A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes to Cook Together,� by Sonja and Alex Overhiser, gives a blueprint for cooking together, assigning tasks to each cook.

It’s been nearly three decades since there were just two of us at home. Back then, in those early days, we had jobs with odd hours and a love of eating out, so that’s what we did.

We eventually became a family of five. Eating out was on the back burner, and there wasn’t a slow cooker recipe or hot dish I wouldn’t try to make our meals (and money) go further. We bought meat in bulk and shopped at warehouse stores; volume was baked into my culinary DNA. The cooking-for-the-masses mentality I possess is still a running joke in the family.





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