More Than Four: Recipes for Larger Families

Cassandra Graves

Dec 2014 · Xlibris Corporation

About this ebook

Our economic times call for recipes and hints that help families get through and still put a healthy and delicious dinner onto the table, especially larger families. Some of the following recipes come from my grandmothers handwritten notes from during the war. My grandmother would regularly have not only her family of seven to feed but her three sisters families, who each had five members as well. With only three occupants in the house earning an income, she became very adept at cooking filling, good, delicious healthy meals for very low cost and using many basic ingredients and being able to use the leftovers from the night before (if any) so that there were no wastage, or fresh vegetables from the garden. Some of the other recipes are specifically for using up the leftovers and still getting a full meal for seven that I have developed over the years.

About the author

Cassandra lives in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, with her three daughters, aged twenty, nineteen, and fifteen; her mother and her sister; as well as three cats (who belong to her mother), one old Maltese terrier and a border collie puppy and a very fat rabbit who loves to eat all the vegetable offcuts. Casandra separated from her husband in 2006, two years after she commenced studying a bachelor of law at University of New England part time while working as a paralegal for law firms in and around Sydney, New South Wales. Cassandra has now been admitted as a solicitor for three years, practicing in property law and civil and strata law at a local firm in Sutherland. When not at work, cooking is a big theme, with regular Sunday baking days and regular experiment days, taking what is in the fridge, freezer, and cupboard and turning it into something not tried before. Since then she has been juggling life as a single mother cooking for up to twelve people at any given time with working full time as an employed solicitor and still spending quality time as a mother, daughter, and sister. As a long-term foster mother, Cassandra never knows when she may have extra mouths to feed, but for at least the last five years, she has not had less than six in the house at any given time, with the usual number sitting at eight and has had to feed up to nineteen on several occasions with little or no warning. Unable to find any recipe books that have recipes specifically for more than four, she has been forced to either play around with recipes due to the increase to the number of mouths to feed or create her own version of family favorites.