Why I do this!

My friends are for the most part not cooking people, they are eating people, (you know who you are!). They are professionals, working for a living, and some of them have the most outrageous working hours I have seen. If the restaurant food they live on doesn't kill them the hours they work will. Well, that's just modern life I guess. So I hope that this helps out a bit when they find themselves at home and in need if a new idea, without eating the same 10 things for the next 20 years. If nothing we are all creatures of habit and of course the best habits are the one least likely to be of any good for us.

I also hope that this site will help when you entertain and are desperate for a new idea or two. I am not by nature a desert person but I will include the ones that I like, which usually rely being beautiful and classic and don't take a life time to make.

So I hope for those of you who visit this site I have helped you out, and for those of you who just keep waiting around for an invitation to another dinner hopefully the recipes remind you of some of our good times together.

I have made this site myself using basic html language, so there is no fancy database for finding things. I have tried to organize it like I would a book with chapters and then recipes. I have tried to get translated most things from Swedish into English and vice versa so that my American friends can use it as well. Weights and measures are given in both forms, metric and pounds and ounces, so are temperatures.

A note on notes: I am terrific at making notes at the bottom of all the recipes. Sometimes too terrific! I know most of my friends don't really cook a great deal but want to. So I try and give as much information concerning the preparation of the recipes can here. So if they are a bit wordy (is that a word?) forgive me.

Bill