from Vancouver Island, welcome to the forum. Secondly, how about the recipe for your cream squash soup, we love recipes and yours sounds like a winner.
. Does the water help? Have I gone astray using half & half?
. One of our boys is a chef, the other has turned into a real gourmet, our daughter also knows her way around a kitchen but usually leaves the cooking to her hubby who is an excellent cook, she still works full time.
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Hi Rodman, and Welcome.
I'm not very experienced, although I've "tried" cooking with a wood stove
All meant in good humor - I drift towards the simplest of recipes and fully expect others to know more about cooking. Perhaps too often, I am driven by a sense of frugality and an expectation that I will learn to better use garden produce. I hope to learn more about cooking.
Steve
@chefsdreams thanks, food always tastes better cooked on a wood stove. My grandmother knew exactly which piece of wood to put on to bring the oven up to the exact temperature she wanted, it really was uncanny.
I think I pass as a fairly good cook but have to say I've only come close to my grandmother's swiss steak once or twice, come to think of I don't think she used recipes or owned a cookbook. She made an awesome Melton Mowbray pork pie, I guess coming from Melton Mowbray had something to do with it. When they moved she had to cook on an electric range, she hated it with a passion.
As far as recipes go, they are just guidelines as far as I'm concerned, I add or take out to suit my taste buds, sometimes by the time I'm finished it hardly resembles the original recipe
I don't think you'd like the island right now, we are actually getting a winter this year, snow and freezing temps with more on the horizon. Driving in snow here on the coast is so different than back east, so easy to land in a ditch if you're not careful. Wet slush on ice can be a little nerve wracking. We were spoiled the last two years of only a week or two of freezing temps and no snow. We never know what kind of a winter we get until it arrives
Annette
I like to store my recipes this way instead of computer or phone. 
I may have looked at that community before
. There it was on the map, right beside "Frisby on the Wreake." Steve
mary, i couldn't agree more! i've got recipes all over the place. almost everywhere except the computer! torn out of old books, typewritten, handwritten. good luck with the soup. i'm serious, i've had neighbors knocking on my door with little bowls in their hands...Chefsdream, I just printed , out your recipe for that squash soup. I love soups and will certainly be making yours. It's in my binder in a document protector. I'm old fashion.
Mary
