#638 Cooking, Community, and Conversation: How to Start a Cookbook Club

#638 Cooking, Community, and Conversation: How to Start a Cookbook Club

638 – Cooking, Community, and Conversation:

How to Start a Cookbook Club

Do you know how sometimes cooking can feel like a chore?

Well, imagine turning it into a party where everyone brings a dish, shares their cooking adventures, and leaves with new recipes and closer friendships.

In this episode of Clutter-Free Academy, Kathi Lipp and Tonya Kubo dive into the delightful world of cookbook clubs. Kathi introduces the concept, explaining how these gatherings can transform cooking from a solitary chore into a social, enriching experience.

Listeners will discover:

  • What is a cookbook club and how to start one
  • How to choose and assign recipes from a selected cookbook
  • Tips for hosting, including using paper plates for easy clean-up
  • How to incorporate discussion questions to enhance the social aspect

Kathi and Tonya also touch on the importance of making cooking enjoyable and how cookbook clubs can reignite passion for home-cooked meals.

Want to start your own cookbook club? Our kit makes it easy. Get yours here. 

And as promised, here is Kathi’s favorite scheduling app! http://www.signupgenius.com/

Preorder Sabbath Soup here and receive your free download bonus Sabbath Soup Shortcuts PLUS a personal shout-out on a future CFA episode. Email Tonya Kubo at tonya@kathilipp.org to register for your shout-out. The preorder bonus ends October 8, 2024.

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Sabbath Soup: Weekly Menus and Rhythms to Make Space for a Day of Rest

Kathi Lipp gives readers an easy-to-follow process for meal planning and prep, so that they can enjoy a full day each week of real rest and refreshment.

Could you use a break from cooking (and everything else) once a week? Not only is rest vital for your mind and body, it’s good for your soul too. God designed us to enter into Sabbath rest one day per week, but as you know, meals still need to be made. Your family still needs to be fed.

Sabbath Soup includes convenient, seasonal meal plans that take the guesswork out of shopping and cooking. More than just a collection of delicious recipes—including main dishes, breads, breakfasts, desserts, salads, sides, and yes, soups—this is your guide to establishing a weekly rhythm and routine of meal planning and prep that allows you to have a true day off.

Do something good for your soul and experience the peace that comes with a full day dedicated to spending time with God, family, and friends. Savor your Sabbath as you proudly proclaim, “Soup’s on!”

Preorder your copy of Sabbath Soup: Weekly Menus and Rhythms to Make Space for a Day of Rest here. Preorder offer ends October 8, 2024.

Links Mentioned:

Preorder Sabbath Soup here and receive your bonus down Sabbath Soup Shortcuts. Preorder bonus ends October 8, 2024

After you preorder Sabbath Soup, email Tonya Kubo at tonya@kathylipp.org to register for your Shout-Out on a future CFA episode!

Kathi’s favorite scheduling app – http://www.signupgenius.com/

Other cookbooks Mentioned:

Against All Grain Cookbook

Modern Asian Baking Cookbook

Betty Crocker Cookbook, 13th Edition

America’s Test Kitchen Cookbook

More With Less Cookbook

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Meet Our Guest 

 

Tonya Kubo

Tonya Kubo is the illustrious and fearless leader of Kathi Lipp’s Clutter Free Academy Facebook group and the Clutter Free for Life membership program. A speaker and writer, Tonya makes her home in the heart of California with her husband, Brian, their two spirited daughters, and one very tolerant cat. Visit her at www.tonyakubo.com.

 

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Transcript

Kathi (00:01.058)

Well, hey friends, welcome to Clutter-Free Academy, where our goal is to help you take small, doable steps to live every day with less clutter and more life. And I am here with the host of all things clutter-free, Tonya Kubo. Hey Tonya.

Tonya Kubo (00:28.002)

Hey, Kathi.

Kathi (00:29.842)

so, we are doing this. This is such a fun episode, and it’s inspired by my friend Sarah Troutman. We love Sarah, who by the way is such a fabulous cook. She’s kind of amazing. Yeah, she was my original soup friend that when I would get sick, she would show up at my house with like a cardboard box.

Tonya Kubo (00:37.513)

We love Sarah.

Tonya Kubo (00:44.12)

She really, really is.

Tonya Kubo (00:51.459)

Mm -hmm.

Kathi (00:56.246)

They had soup and bread and salad and, yeah, a lifesaver in those times. Because everybody gets sick every once in a while, and you’re like, and these were, this was kind of pre Door Dash day, or at least it was pre me thinking, yeah, Door Dash is an option because that seems very, that seems like what my friends in San Francisco and New York do, little bougie. So instead of Door Dash, I had Sarah.

Tonya Kubo (01:10.168)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (01:18.094)

Too bougie for you, Kathi Lev. Too bougie.

Kathi (01:25.462)

But I was talking, she and I were messaging back and forth and she’s like, I can’t wait for your book, Sabbath Soup, because we are doing a cookbook club and I’m going to feature this as one of my selections. I’m like, a cookbook club, tell me more.

Tonya Kubo (01:43.822)

Leave it to Sarah to come up with an idea like this. I love it. Okay, tell me about it.

Kathi (01:48.626)

So we have now adopted this as something we are doing for Sabbath Soup, and Sarah’s group is going to be the first test case. And so I thought it would be really interesting to talk about, we have developed a whole, like, here’s what you can do to host a cookbook club. And in fact, we are going to have some downloads.

Tonya Kubo (02:11.192)

Mmm.

Kathi (02:14.848)

So that if you want to host a cookbook club, not just for Sabbath Soup, but for any of your favorite cookbooks, here are some tools that you can use. So, first of all, Tonya, tell me some of your favorite cookbooks, because I always find this fascinating. I think your favorite cookbooks tell me a lot about you.

Tonya Kubo (02:21.006)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (02:33.79)

Okay, well, so the Against All Grain cookbooks, probably that’s my favorite series of all time. And, you know, it would be faster for me to just tell you about my favorite like food websites. But, but there’s, there is a cookbook that I really enjoy called Simple Asian Baking. And it’s more like Asian-inspired recipes that you can make at home. But

Kathi (02:37.707)

yeah. Mm -hmm. Yes.

Kathi (02:48.851)

Yeah, that’s okay.

Kathi (02:58.114)

interesting.

Kathi (03:02.483)

Tonya Kubo (03:03.038)

lot of fun stuff there. And that’s from, it’s Subtle Asian Baking. See, I don’t even know the name. But yeah, that was an awesome cookbook. It came out of a Facebook group. So, I like that one a lot. And then, know, Betty Crocker, Betty Crocker on Better Homes and Gardening cookbooks never let me do.

Kathi (03:09.036)

That’s okay.

Kathi (03:17.502)

God bless her.

Right because they’ve been tested a thousand times. So, a couple of my favorites are and of course now the America’s Test Kitchen. I love their cookbooks. They have a cookbook that came out probably about five or six years ago that you could injure yourself if you dropped it on your foot. But like my absolute favorite

Tonya Kubo (03:23.87)

Yes.

Tonya Kubo (03:31.832)

Ooh!

Tonya Kubo (03:39.054)

Mm

Kathi (03:49.846)

Blueberry muffin recipe is kind of based on that I’ve done a little twisting to it with some lemon and stuff like that, But I love that also one for me. That’s really old But I love it’s the more with less cookbook and this was made there was a woman, and she has since passed her name was Doris and She was a Mennonite, and she gathered up

Tonya Kubo (03:53.986)

Mm

Kathi (04:16.334)

all the favorite recipes from fellow Mennonites around the world. And I love it. It is such a basic cookbook, but I will tell you this cookbook saved my bacon when I was living in Japan, and I didn’t have access to all the foods that you might have in the United States because it’s such a basic cookbook recipe. And it was really tailored that no matter where you are, what ingredients you have available, you can

Tonya Kubo (04:21.238)

Mmm.

Tonya Kubo (04:40.632)

Mm -hmm.

Kathi (04:46.07)

You can eat beautiful food. And then when I was a young mom and, or, and a single mom and I was B -R -O -K -E, so, you know, four syllables broke, this was a great way to say, hey, whatever I have on hand, I can turn into something. So, if you were going to have one of those cookbooks, what you would do, here’s the concept for a cookbook.

Tonya Kubo (04:48.494)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (04:55.532)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (05:03.628)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (05:09.25)

Mm -hmm.

I was going to ask you, like at first, I need to understand the cookbook club.

Kathi (05:14.594)

Yeah. Right. Yes. So, I don’t have this is how I think about it. All of my favorite people are cooks. I have a couple of people that I allow into my life who are not cooks, but they really appreciate eating. So, they’re allowed to hang out with us. But I love people who are creative, who like to experiment with food.

Tonya Kubo (05:26.072)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (05:34.787)

Mm

Okay.

Kathi (05:44.396)

who like to try new things and really learn new skills. And that’s what I feel like a cookbook club can do. You can hang out with cool people who are interested in the same things that you are. And here’s the thing, you and I both know this, that cooking and getting dinner on the table, two separate skills. There are times that we really enjoy cooking. Your daughter, Lily, loves to cook. You love to cook; Brian loves to cook.

Tonya Kubo (05:50.541)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (06:10.968)

Mm

Kathi (06:13.768)

I love to cook; Roger loves to barbecue. Again, two very different skills. But you know, sometimes it’s just like, okay, I have to get dinner on the table. Last night, the watermelon almost took me out, Tonya, because I bought this watermelon. No, it was the emotional weight of the watermelon. decide, they are, and so I said, instead of a vegetable, we’re just gonna have

Tonya Kubo (06:16.355)

Yeah?

Tonya Kubo (06:28.648)

How’s that? Did it fall on your foot?

Tonya Kubo (06:34.235)

watermelons are a commitment.

Kathi (06:42.496)

We had some chicken, and we had some potato salad. I’m like, what could be better than a watermelon? And Roger was chopping it all up and it tasted like water. And I was so, and it was a little, wasn’t mealy. just did, I don’t know. It was so sad. And I’m like, I’m done. I don’t need to eat. Like I can’t. So I did gather my gumption and I created a zucchini, not zucchini, cucumber, red tomato, I mean red.

Tonya Kubo (06:48.76)

What could be better?

Tonya Kubo (06:53.639)

Kathi (07:12.318)

onion tomato salad with feta and we soldiered on but like there are just times when you get to six o ‘clock and you’re like no I can’t I do not have the emotional energy but if you’re excited about cooking something then that I don’t know there’s a different energy wouldn’t you say

Tonya Kubo (07:33.08)

There is, there is. And I think that when you’re excited about cooking something, it doesn’t feel like a chore, right? Like I am energized by the process of making the dish and then sitting down to eat it feels like a reward. Whereas when I am not excited about it, then…

Kathi (07:45.612)

Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm.

Kathi (07:51.798)

Yes.

Kathi (07:57.154)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (07:58.964)

Even eating it feels like a chore. Like sometimes, Kathi, quite honestly, I don’t have the energy to chew. Right?

Kathi (08:04.598)

Yeah, yes, right? I totally get it, I get it. There are times, you know, like I love food, let’s not get it twisted, but there are sometimes I’m like, I resent Roger for wanting to eat dinner. And by the way, he would be the first person to say, I’ll make a peanut butter and honey sandwich, which by the way, sounds disgusting to me. But he’s fine with that, but I’m like, no, you know, I should make a meal. yes, so.

Tonya Kubo (08:13.187)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (08:32.282)

Kathi (08:33.618)

I feel like one of the advantages of a cookbook club is to get excited about the art of cooking and not just the chore of cooking. And I will also say this, I feel like any time somebody else can teach us a little hint, a little idea, a little shortcut, it’s a beautiful thing. So you’re going to laugh at me, but I did not know with my citrus juicer.

Tonya Kubo (08:38.156)

Mm -hmm. Got it, got it.

Tonya Kubo (08:52.109)

Mm

Kathi (09:01.75)

that you were supposed to put the cut lime, lemon, orange, whatever it is, dome shape. I thought you were supposed to fit it into the cup. So, you know, when you squeeze it, it turns it inside out and you get as much juice from it as possible. But I shared that yesterday on the live and people are like, I never knew that I never knew that. And I was like,

Tonya Kubo (09:07.64)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (09:11.672)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (09:16.183)

Tonya Kubo (09:21.23)

Mm

Kathi (09:29.896)

I didn’t either. So, like anytime you can learn something like that, I feel cooking can be such a solitary activity. When we gather together, we can start to figure some of those things out and be a little bit smarter than when we started.

Tonya Kubo (09:45.816)

Got it. Okay, so that helps me understand sort of why I might want to get together with a bunch of people and talk about cooking and cookbooks. How does the cookbook club specifically work?

Kathi (09:52.308)

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Kathi (10:00.086)

Yeah, so if you don’t mind, what we’re going to do is we’re going to take a quick break. We’re going to come back and then I’m going to dive into kind of what you need for a cookbook club. And it’s very easy to start and I hope you’ll be inspired by the end of this podcast. Okay, we’ll be right back. Okay friends, we are back with the who, what, where, when, why, how. We already did the why, and the how of the cookbook club. So.

Tonya Kubo (10:04.334)

Okay.

Tonya Kubo (10:10.274)

Got it.

Tonya Kubo (10:24.032)

Yeah

Kathi (10:26.53)

If we were going to use Sabbath Soup, which by the way, we’re going to have all these things down in a printable for you.

Tonya Kubo (10:32.866)

By the way, it’ll be easiest to use Sabbath Soup. Just going to throw that out there, because we’ll do it all for you, almost.

Kathi (10:36.93)

Yes, we will do it all for you, but this will be a great blueprint for future clubs that you want to do. yes, so first of all, just pick a date and time. So, I’m actually doing this. We are doing a cookbook club here at the Red House in October. And we are going to, you know, I’m inviting some people, getting the date on the calendar early. And

Tonya Kubo (10:42.946)

Yes.

Got it.

Tonya Kubo (10:55.182)

Mm

Kathi (11:03.26)

Just decide, you know, do you want to do this monthly? Do you want to do it quarterly? I really feel like post-pandemic quarterly might be your best option unless you have a bunch of people that live really close together and your kind of already do life together. It’s just that it’s hard to get people to gather together, but food is a great incentive. And so, I like to use an app like there are lots of scheduling apps out there, being able to like

Tonya Kubo (11:20.59)

Mm.

Kathi (11:32.012)

pick a date and time, I’ll put a couple of my favorites in the notes so we can find something like that. But to find a date and time, I’m going to do it on a Saturday from three o ‘clock to six o ‘clock, or three to five, three to six, depending on how long people want to hang out. And just say, so that people can still go home if they have Saturday night plans, they can still do that. So here’s kind of the kit we’ve come up with. So, first of all,

Tonya Kubo (11:43.16)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (11:57.838)

Mm

Kathi (11:59.754)

with the Sabbath Soup Kit, you’ll get eight recipes. So these are some of my favorite recipes in the book that kind of all go together. So like our mac and cheese, which is amazing, tomato gin soup. So I’ve got a couple of main dishes, a couple of side dishes, a couple of desserts, a couple of appetizer things that can be used as appetizers.

Tonya Kubo (12:19.211)

and

Tonya Kubo (12:24.494)

Mm

Kathi (12:27.994)

Everybody who comes brings a dish unless you decide otherwise. So you’ll have some recipe cards. Then you’ll also have some blank recipe cards. And I’ll tell you what we’re going to do with those in a bit. The menu board. So this is just a sheet of paper about like, what’s the menu? And so you’re going to write what the dishes are and then put the name next to the person who cooked it. So if people have questions and things like that, they can ask, you know,

Did you use a special kind of pasta? Like whatever it is. Then we’re having, we’ve got some extra, because we’re going to be a little extra here. So we’ve got some verse cards that we wanted to be able to make the table a little zhuzhier. And then tabletop cards with some questions that you can ask each other to get to know each other better. And then finally, some little fold-over food signs. So you can say, this is,

Tonya Kubo (13:01.186)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (13:18.776)

Mm -hmm.

Kathi (13:26.838)

This is the macaroni casserole, the tomato gin soup, that it is, it contains meat in it. So people will know. So, you know, in Sabbath Soup, we have a ton of recipes that are vegetarian, but that may not be what you guys want to do. So you can put on there exactly what it is. So the fold-over food signs are just a cute way of being able to put things on your table and go from there.

Tonya Kubo (13:37.176)

Mm

Kathi (13:56.98)

Anything you think I missed there? Anything? Yeah.

Tonya Kubo (13:58.824)

Yeah, I just have one thing that I think I understand, but I’m not sure. So when you’re doing a cookbook club, I was thinking everybody brings a specific cookbook, but this is like you feature a cookbook and then everybody makes one item out of the cookbook. Is that how we do it?

Kathi (14:03.319)

Go for it.

Kathi (14:12.268)

such.

Such a great question. Sorry, I started in the middle. This is the curse of knowledge, Tonya. So yes, so the person who’s hosting, when I say hosting, doesn’t necessarily have to be at their house. Like Tonya could pick the cookbook, but Tonya says, hey, our house is under construction, so we’re going to meet at Kathi’s house. So if Tonya’s the host, she’s the one who’s picking the cookbook and assigning the recipes. that’s, yeah, that’s the next thing we’re going to talk about.

Tonya Kubo (14:19.568)

hahahaha

Tonya Kubo (14:34.584)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (14:40.728)

Got it, okay.

Kathi (14:44.308)

So if you assign the recipes, and you can do this a million different ways, you can draw them out of a hat. You can say, hey, you did the main dish last time, could you do dessert this time? Or something like that. Or maybe somebody’s just having a rough month and they say, all I can bring is the chopped carrot. Well, that’s fine, that’s okay. So you’re preparing the meals at home. Now I will say,

Tonya Kubo (14:57.486)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (15:05.87)

Mm

Kathi (15:11.998)

I was part of a cooking club one time where we all got together in somebody’s big kitchen and cooked together. I don’t know that I’d recommend that. If you do have somebody who maybe doesn’t have kitchen space, they could come over early and prepare. But I think it’s better to just, the host doesn’t have a thousand dishes, especially prep dishes and things like that. But.

Tonya Kubo (15:17.486)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (15:27.735)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (15:34.338)

Mm

Kathi (15:38.472)

That way everybody’s cooking at home. They’re bringing it with them and they’re bringing their dish home to clean out. And so it makes it a little bit easier. And then my vision for it is we just put everything out on the table. have, so you set up the space, just having one table where everything’s put. We have a rolling kitchen island. So I would probably put everything on that.

Tonya Kubo (15:46.626)

Got it, okay.

Tonya Kubo (16:05.73)

Mm

Kathi (16:07.69)

You might have a sideboard or a part of the table. Or if you want to do it family style, you could just put everything in the middle of the table and let people serve. I am going to suggest that it’s okay to use paper plates. Like this may just be the time where you want to keep it low-key. And this is not for everybody to take a huge portion of macaroni and cheese.

Tonya Kubo (16:23.853)

Okay.

Kathi (16:35.938)

This is for everybody to try a bunch of different dishes. And so maybe it’s a half portion, maybe it’s a quarter portion, enough that people can come. So I would recommend probably no less than five people and no more than 10. That feels like a good number. And that way you can, you get to try a bunch of different things from this one cookbook.

Tonya Kubo (16:40.526)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (16:52.824)

Mm -hmm. Okay.

Kathi (17:04.64)

I think it’s a great way to test, is this a cookbook I wanna put in my permanent collection? Here’s my theory and I don’t know, your results may vary. Tonya, if I can get eight banger recipes out of a cookbook, I’m down. I’ve got the Against the Grain cookbook, I bought it specifically for the chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Tonya Kubo (17:06.998)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (17:11.384)

Got it.

Tonya Kubo (17:21.838)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (17:30.476)

It’s a really good chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Kathi (17:32.212)

So real and you guys if you don’t know Against The Grain, it’s for gluten-free cooking, right? Am I saying that correctly? It’s all grain-free. Okay

Tonya Kubo (17:38.875)

No, it’s for it’s all grain free. So it’s not just it is gluten-free by default, but it is free of all grain. So no rice, no nothing.

Kathi (17:45.61)

Yeah, okay.

Okay, so yeah, Michelle Cushatt was the one who introduced it to me. So like it uses like coconut flour and things like that, right? Okay, I am not very familiar with that whole world, but I have to do some gluten-free cooking for our retreats and things. So that’s why I got that. But.

Tonya Kubo (17:56.172)

Mm -hmm. Yeah.

Tonya Kubo (18:06.551)

Mm -hmm.

Yeah, the pumpkin donut recipe, highly recommend.

Kathi (18:12.77)

see, this is good to know. See, I love that. Okay, I’m going to need to look that one up. And then I think that you can, when you’re sitting down, you’re eating all this delicious food, whatever cookbook it is, you can say, hey, this recipe was really easy. Or you know what, this challenged me to do some different things. And to also share, hey, as I was looking through the book, here are some other recipes I hope to try. And

Tonya Kubo (18:31.275)

Mm

Kathi (18:41.482)

I just think it’s a delightful way of sharing some time, also improving our skills, improving our cooking repertoire. I also love that we get to talk about one of our favorite things, food. And my suggestion would be as you’re sitting there, everybody grab their calendars, somebody suggests a cookbook that they love, and you plan your next time together.

Tonya Kubo (18:49.027)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (19:05.614)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (19:12.174)

Got it, okay, so let me make sure I understand this. So how we do this is first of all, we decide that we want to have a cookbook club. Five people, 10 people sound good, but I would argue it’s whatever sounds like a party to you and not overwhelming, right? And then you’re going to, one individual is appointed to pick the cookbook. Now that person may host the event at their house.

Kathi (19:19.094)

Mm -hmm.

Kathi (19:26.506)

Yep, that’s

Tonya Kubo (19:37.49)

or it may be at a centralized location. Like I can imagine for some people, they might like having this at a social hall, just depending on what they have access to. And then everybody cooks a recipe out of that book. It sounds like your recommendation is just to make sure that sort of we have a great experience out of the cookbook that the host assigns the recipes. Everybody brings, you know, they cook at home, they bring it potluck style. Then you sit down and everybody gets to try a little bit of something.

Kathi (19:43.382)

Sure. Yeah.

Kathi (19:57.91)

Mm

Kathi (20:01.953)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (20:07.042)

four recipes, probably four to eight, it sounds to me, like what you would have. Get a little sample, then that lets you know whether you want this cookbook. But then you are also talking about, you know, just having conversations and sort of other things that make it more of an experience. Is there anything you want to add to that idea versus just a utilitarian, let’s try some recipes.

Kathi (20:10.934)

Yeah.

Kathi (20:25.814)

Yeah.

Kathi (20:29.762)

think that there is a great opportunity with some table talk discussions. If you have some questions, like one question that I asked at a party recently that was such a great question was from the jobs you’ve worked, what is something you always do or never do because of your specified knowledge? So, Tonya, I’m going to ask you that question.

I think that’s a great question. Like you’ve had a lot of really interesting jobs that people don’t know. You’ve done everything from being a newspaper reporter to inseminating cows. And so you have done, you’ve had a variety of experiences. Is there something from your schooling, your work, something that you do or don’t do because of your special knowledge? Look at your smile. That’s so funny. Okay. She’s got an idea.

Tonya Kubo (21:04.555)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (21:26.818)

Well, there’s a few of them, but I think the easiest one is naming our children. Brian was a schoolteacher. I was a former reporter. I wrote up youth sports results. So we made the decision very early on that we were not going to do any creative spellings. And we were going to choose names that were easy to say and easy to spell.

Kathi (21:31.905)

Mm -hmm.

Kathi (21:35.718)

yeah. Yeah.

Kathi (21:43.969)

Yeah.

Kathi (21:49.354)

smart, smart, smart. Yeah. I love watching the videos when you go into like a vet’s office and it’s like, what is one thing you would never name your dog? And it’s always Bella. Like, you know, like every dog is named Bella, even the guys. So yeah, it’s such a great question. Like at this party we were hosting, we asked that and our son’s friend said, I would never buy seafood on the weekend because it’s, it’s

Tonya Kubo (22:00.898)

Yeah.

Tonya Kubo (22:16.322)

Mm

Kathi (22:19.314)

it’s been delivered probably by Thursday and by Sunday, you don’t wanna touch it. And I thought that is so fascinating. Someone else said that they would never buy a car like a Tesla because, and this is no Tesla slander, this was their experience with their job, because Tesla builds all the different components of the car. And he said, as a car buyer, he would rather have

Tonya Kubo (22:22.638)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (22:37.303)

Mm -hmm.

Kathi (22:49.152)

Goodyear who specializes in the tires and all the specially but he works for a lawyer who’s specialized and he does statistics for this lawyer on car crashes and things like that and I thought you know and Roger Rogers contribution was you know, we joke about y2k people don’t know how close we were and I thought that was a fascinating answer. So

Tonya Kubo (22:52.355)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (23:03.714)

Got it.

Tonya Kubo (23:12.91)

Yeah.

Kathi (23:17.506)

We’re going to include some discussion questions, but you can also just Google, know, table talk questions and have some of those up there. Also, you know, if you can, getting those recipe cards and if everybody fills out a recipe card, and then people can grab the blank cards and fill out the recipes for the ones they like, or you can photocopy them or something like that. The other thing I will say about a cookbook club,

Tonya Kubo (23:25.88)

Mm -hmm.

Kathi (23:47.746)

Do not be afraid to reach out to the author and see if they will zoom in for 10 to 15 minutes. I think especially, you might not get, I can’t remember the author of Against the Grain, you might not get her. But somebody like me or somebody who, I’ve got a couple of friends who have written cookbooks. We would love to zoom in for your,

Tonya Kubo (23:51.896)

Mmm.

Tonya Kubo (23:56.909)

Yeah.

Tonya Kubo (24:04.418)

Mm

Tonya Kubo (24:13.582)

Mm -hmm.

Kathi (24:14.818)

your little gathering and talk about our experience with the cookbook and recommend some recipes that maybe somebody would enjoy and you know, so the best way to do that I think is really through social media to message them through social media unless there you have a contact or something like that But that’s what I’m going to be doing for Sarah’s club is they’ve already asked me if I will zoom in for 15 minutes to talk about why I cook, you know did

Tonya Kubo (24:29.902)

Mm

Kathi (24:43.584)

the recipes I did, what was my heart behind the book and to suggest some other recipes they might enjoy. And I think that that’s just a little bit extra. And don’t we love being just a little bit extra?

Tonya Kubo (24:45.24)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (24:57.442)

Just a little bit.

Kathi (24:59.074)

Yeah, so guys, we’re going to include the instructions on how to have a cookbook club and all the resources we mentioned here in the notes. And if you would be if you’re going to be doing the Sabbath Soup Cookbook Club, let me know. I would love to if at all possible zoom in for 15 minutes. We’ll have a great discussion. And knowing me will stay longer than 15 minutes. But if you want to keep it to 15 minutes, we can.

but I’m going to be doing this here at the Red House with a group of friends and I’m really looking forward to it because here’s what I love. I just have to clean my house and cook one dish and let the party begin, right? And I’m very excited about that. I’m very excited to see the twists that people are going to put on these recipes. It’s going to be a lot of fun. So Tonya, thanks for hanging out with me today.

Tonya Kubo (25:37.719)

Yeah!

Tonya Kubo (25:45.621)

Mm -hmm.

Tonya Kubo (25:51.086)

Thanks for having me.

Kathi (25:52.32)

And friends, thank you for hanging out. You’ve been listening to Clutter Free Academy. I’m Kathi Lipp. Now, go create the clutter-free life you’ve always wanted to live.