When fall comes around, the comfort food rolls out! We now are making pierogi. Potato/cheese or sauerkraut are made for you by the dozen. Check the menu here for our other items now in season–Butternut Squash Soup or Apple Cider Cupcakes! Please contact me for a kitchen appointment.
Sometimes, the best laid plans…you know…
When I started cooking for people over a year ago, it was a small venture from my home and I thought it would just sail along. Well, being the sole person in charge is great in a perfect world. But the world is not, and that’s what makes it fun (or that’s what I tell myself). Sometimes, for things to flow along, we have to adjust.
So, this post is not my usual menu. It is ALL THE THINGS! This is the official re-launch of Rm Made. From now on, you can make kitchen appointments! Your food can be on your table, in your home, with everything cleaned up and taken care of for you. All you do is contact me AT LEAST 48 HOURS ahead of time, and I can be there for you.
What you see here are SUGGESTED MEALS I have made before for my clients. The pricing shown is based on food costs and time in the kitchen. For travel OUTSIDE of Dearborn, there is a travel and cooking fee applied based on where you are. Please take a minute to check out the menu options below, and let me know what I can do for you!
You can, as before, pick up the baked goods from me or have them dropped off.
As always, thank you for your support, and use the contact information to the right to find me.
The weekly menu is here with a new chicken marsala dish! Please give us one day ahead of when you’d like pick-up or delivery. This menu is good for the Dearborn, Michigan area. We will work with you on pick-up or delivery options. If you in the Detroit area, but out of the Dearborn area, a delivery charge will apply. Message us at rmp@rmmade.com , or visit us on Facebook at Rm Made
The new menu is here with dishes inspired by the flavors of Italy, India, and Poland! Cannelloni, Curry, and Kluski for you to try! Please give us one day ahead of when you’d like pick-up or delivery. Click pictures to open larger. This menu is good for the Dearborn, Michigan area. We will work with you on pick-up or delivery options. If you in the Detroit area, but out of the Dearborn area, a delivery charge will apply. Message us at rmp@rmmade.com , or visit us on Facebook at Rm Made
Something about having been a teacher with the busy grind of days at school and then nights of planning and paper checking makes the days of summer seem like vast open spaces of nothingness. Super existential, right? But I think that’s why I love to do something totally relaxing and creative on those days. I feel like if you give me a tub of flour and a pile of eggs, I can do anything on those open summer days. For some reason, this is my favorite time of year to be making pasta. The fresh vegetables just make the possibilities endless. A fresh batch of pasta is like a canvas waiting to be filled with the color of the farm market. (It may also help that summer is a good time for chilled wine which pairs well with pasta…but that’s another story)
So, this week we have one of my new favorite pasta dishes. The bright lemony sauce screams summer sunshine and goes well with a glass of rosé and a salad. Won’t you give it a try?
If you are feeling a little like brunch for dinner (or brunch for brunch!) we also have our crepes back. These are served with a fruit compote of the freshest looking summer fruits from the market that day or with a savory blend of ricotta and spinach.
The new menu is here below! Please give us one day ahead of when you’d like pick-up or delivery. Click pictures to open larger. This menu is good for the Dearborn, Michigan area. We will work with you on pick-up or delivery options. If you are out of the Dearborn area, a delivery charge will apply. Use the email address to the right on this page for ordering, or visit us on Facebook at Rm Made
The new menu is here! We are featuring cannelloni, cauliflower ‘grits,’ and a comforting chicken dish this week, as well as one last week of lemon bars. Please give us one day ahead of when you’d like pick-up or delivery. Click pictures to open larger. This menu is good for the Dearborn, Michigan area. We will work with you on pick-up or delivery options. If you are out of the Dearborn area, a delivery charge will apply. Use the email address to the right on this page for ordering, or visit us on Facebook at Rm Made
This will not be a typical post for this blog. No recipe, no menu, but it is one that my chief PR man, my husband, has been wanting me to do. “Tell the people about yourself,” he says, “They need to identify with something besides the page online.” I don’t know if this is what he meant, but it’s what I have, and I think it’s important to say. So, I will quote from one of my favorite musicals, Fun Home.
“It’s hard to know where to start.
It’s all so fast,
I’m trying not to spin.
I guess I’m older,
And it’s harder when you’re older to begin.”
Starting a business is daunting. Starting a cooking business when you were a teacher for 20+ years is unnerving, especially when you also live with anxiety and depression. There, I said it. For those of you that have read older posts about my love for Chopped, that’s my “Chopped moment.” (note: everyone on Chopped usually has a moment where they share why they do what they do, an obstacle they have overcome, or what their inspiration is. I in NO WAY mean to belittle what they go through to do what they do. I cannot, for I have my own problems, as we all do). More about that later.
Because my love for teaching exceeded the education world’s love for learning and relationship building, I gave up teaching. Short answer…being in classrooms that emphasized form and testing outcomes over learning and relationships made me more frustrated, anxious, and depressed about my ability to do things as well as I knew I could.
Fast forward to “What do I do now?” Well, there aren’t that many jobs for teachers who are also introverted and prone to panic attacks. So, obviously textbook sales and training large groups of teachers on curriculum packages were out. Those seemed to be the only positions I was finding. Therefore, I started listening to my family. My biggest supporters are my husband and kids. When my kids went away to graduate school, they told me it was my time. My time to do what I wanted because we didn’t need to pay for college any more. But all I knew was teaching…and making a home. That sounds very 1950s of me, but it’s true. I also really wanted to go on “Next Food Network Star,” but somehow know that is out of the question without more training and knowledge. However, I felt I had enough feedback from my little family of 3 and my friends to make a leap to a small business. I love to cook. I love to make people happy and give them comfort; I love to make things and teach people new things. It seemed natural to me.
Leaping is hard when you don’t know what you are leaping into. For someone like me that has an intense fear of the unknown and needs to plan and needs to know what will be there at the end, it is insanity. The questions are endless…does this taste ok? should I cook this? where do I advertise? will anyone like anything? that’s a new customer, will they be back? did I offend them when I didn’t come to the door and sent my husband? was the price too high? too low? is this the right selection? what if they don’t like it? what if it falls apart when they take it home? That’s a sample of how my brain goes. Rapid fire. All the time. Every time. Every order. Every menu. I like to think it’s my super power that keeps me on my toes, keeps me looking to make things right, keeps me trying that much harder.
But, like the Incredible Hulk, it’s a love/hate relationship. I need the super power to an extent, but I need to keep it from taking over. I do need to own it, and not hide that the green guy is inside, no matter what anyone says about having a problem like this. Somehow, when you say you struggle with anxiety or depression, it still has an attachment to it of “crazy” or “attention seeker” or “not a real thing.” But it is. And unless we talk about it, it will still have those labels attached to it. And maybe it’s also my time to conquer the green guy instead of the other way around.
When I titled this post Business of 2, that has two meanings to me. One is that I am in this with my biggest supporter, my husband. The other is the 2 parts of me. The part that wants to branch out and be something more, but the part that says…nope that won’t work. So, I will keep plugging, one menu at a time, one order at a time, one day at a time. Like my husband keeps telling me, “It’s ok, it will be slow. It takes a while.” And that will be ok.
The new menu is here! We are featuring pizzas this week, as well as one last week of lemon bars. Please give us one day ahead of when you’d like pick-up or delivery. Click pictures to open larger. This menu is good for the Dearborn, Michigan area. We will work with you on pick-up or delivery options. If you are out of the Dearborn area, a delivery charge will apply. Use the email address to the right on this page for ordering, or visit us on Facebook at Rm Made
The new menu is here! We are featuring salads and a NEW pasta this week, as well as one last week of lemon bars. Please give us one day ahead of when you’d like pick-up or delivery. Click pictures to open larger. This menu is good for the Dearborn, Michigan area. We will work with you on pick-up or delivery options. If you are out of the Dearborn area, a delivery charge will apply. Use the email address to the right on this page for ordering, or visit us on Facebook at Rm Made
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The new menu is here! We are featuring pasta this week, as well as lemon bars. Please give us one day ahead of when you’d like pick-up or delivery.Click pictures to open larger. This menu is good for the Dearborn, Michigan area. We will work with you on pick-up or delivery options. If you are out of the Dearborn area, a delivery charge will apply. Use the email address to the right on this page for ordering, or visit us on Facebook at Rm Made 
