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‘Goodbye England’ ‘ and ‘Hello America’. Once my family and I had taken the decision to lift up our roots and head to the US for a new life, it didn’t take us long to make the necessary changes. We were all very keen to embrace opportunities available in the New World, and quite rapidly found ourselves living the life ‘ and being a part of a real neighbourhood.

One of the things we most wanted to do was to try to fit in. Standing out as foreigners didn’t really appeal, and we all wanted to not only embrace the whole concept of the American life, but we wanted America to embrace us too. When in Rome.. and all that. So we all tried hard to understand the local customs, the traditional activities, and even the food. My wife and I both love cooking, and to us food is very important.

Back in the UK we would quite happily rustle up the traditional British recipes, but now we found ourselves in the US we both felt it only right to embrace our new life wholeheartedly, stomachs and all. Of course, we fell quite quickly for the usual stereotypes, but at the same time realised that our kids weren’t going to do too well living on hotdogs and burgers for their whole life.

So we spent quite a while trying to identify just what makes a traditional US recipe. We were looking for recipes that were very much part of America, taking in its history and culture as well as local foods and popular dishes. We had started making a lot of friends, and wanted to be able to offer them local recipes and typical US meals, not so much to make them feel at home, but to help them feel that we were trying to feel at home ourselves.

As well as looking for recipes which were traditional, we were also fairly anxious to identify some recipes which would be warming too. Naturally, as English, we are very used to fairly cold weather. But with the US version of cold reinventing the concept, we were all on the lookout for warming food. We used the internet to help us with our search, quickly coming across a Navy Bean Soup recipe which we agreed sounded fantastic, as well as a Ham Navy Bean soup recipe. We downloaded these, and gave them our best shot.

The Navy Bean Soup recipe was the first of our experiments and very successful it was too. It was a delicious recipe enjoyed by the whole family (even the dog seemed to welcome this aspect of the move!) and we soon tried the Ham Navy Bean Soup recipe, with equal success. Buoyed up by our success, and with an awareness that two recipes doth not a cook make, we headed back online to find some more traditional American recipes.

The website from where I downloaded the Navy Bean Soup Recipe had a number of others available, two hundred other recipes to be precise. I figured that two hundred traditional US recipes would probably be about enough to see my family through the winter! They sounded just as appetizing as the Ham Navy Bean Soup recipe, and when I saw the price I was astonished, 200 recipes for just $10!

To be honest, $10 doesn’t get a lot these days, I couldn’t even buy a hot dog and chips for my family for that. But now we have a stack of two hundred fantastic recipes, all as successful as our first Navy Bean Soup recipe. We certainly don’t run out of ideas now, and not only are our children delighted, and very happy, but we seem to have acquired something of a reputation in our neighbourhood, but at least we have a great many new friends!