About

If you wish to contact me, just email: homecookingmemories@gmail.com

Welcome to  Home Cooking Memories! I’m Brandie and this is my blog. I’m married to David and we live in Las Vegas, NV with our 4 children (ages 22, 20, 15, 12).

I’ve been blogging for several years — I started my first family blog in 2004, but Home Cooking Memories was launched in the beginning of 2010 because I wanted to document and motivate myself to cook at home more for my family. Before Home Cooking Memories, we were a family who constantly ate out (fast food, most of the time) and if I did cook at home, most of our meals were highly processed and not very creative. {please don’t confuse this statement to mean that we don’t ever eat fast food or processed foods now…because we do, but MUCH less}

Unlike some home cooks, I don’t have treasured memories of cooking or eating with my grandparents. My grandparents all lived too far away (or weren’t on speaking terms with my parents), so we never had holiday meals or even everyday meals with them. My mom cooked, but I never really helped much and my dad cooked simple stuff like hot dogs and frozen fish sticks. I also don’t have a recipe box full of old family recipes, I don’t have cookbooks that have been handed down to me, and very little of my recipes come from my childhood.

But, what I do have is the recipes and home cooking memories I am creating today. I believe that just because you don’t have to have an extensive family history with food, you can still create those histories for your family and future generations.

Home Cooking Memories serves as a place for me to preserve the food I am cooking. It is my hope, that you’ll not only find recipes that you enjoy here, but that you will also find ways to preserve the recipes and food memories of your family — even if those recipes are new to you and not handed down from previous generations. While many of my memories are preserved right here on this blog, I also enjoy preserving memories through scrapbooking, recipe cards, journaling, crafting, and more. It doesn’t matter how you do it, just as long as you do it! Find what works for you.

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 Thanks for visiting!

Brandie

Regarding my photos:

All photographs on Home Cooking Memories have been owned and copyright by me, Brandie Valenzuela, unless otherwise noted.  If you wish to link to Home Cooking Memories, spotlight one of my recipes or my blog, and/or publish one of my photos on your website, with a clear link back to HomeCookingMemories.com or one of my specific posts, please feel free to. However, publishing my photos, with my recipe, is not allowed.