Welcome

I was born and raised in NJ, but moved to Maracaibo, Venezuela, with my husband more than 40 years ago. He's a baker, as a hobby for years and now professionally after he "retired" from his former line of work. I have always loved cooking and feeding the people I love.
We started hosting a weekly "open house" get together over thirty years ago, when our son was born and it was easier to see our friends at home than to get out. At that time in Maracaibo the restaurants and clubs were closed on Mondays, so our house was the go to place for our friends, and almost never conflicted with other invitations. When our older daughter reached tween age we preferred having her friends at our house to driving them around town, and so Sunday nights for the "buffalo" began. Our friends came along as well, some with their children, some without, and to this date Sunday nights usually host at least two or three generations,
There is always fresh baked sourdough bread of some type and usually a soup, except on pizza night. I collect recipes for tapas and appetizers. I make almost everything from scratch so you won't see any catsup or garlic salt in the recipes. I make my own chicken broth every week for the soups, my own pickles, tomato sauce for the pizza and more. I am, however, not a strict recipe follower. So when a friend says, "You have to give me this recipe.", or asks "How do you make this?", I usually don't have exact quantities at my fingertips, and often the dish they are eating is a one of a kind result, as I just start out with what is in the pantry and add a bit of this and shake on a bit of that. The recipes will reflect that, giving a standard version and suggestions as to how it can be varied as you become more comfortable with it.
My daughter has been asking "How do you make this?" more and more lately, and my sister-in-law said, "Why don't you create a blog and put the recipes up for us?"  So...here it is... Sunday Night Specials and other personal favorites. I don't claim that any of these recipes is completely original, they have been influenced by years of recipe reading, both in my cookbook collection and online. I have been making many of them for so long that I don't remember where I got the first inspiration. But no matter where they came from (and I will give credit when I can), they have all been adapted, by my cooking style, by the availability of ingredients in Venezuela, and by the desire to eliminate processed ingredients from our diet. Other than "unprocessed" I don't follow any strict diet type, so some dishes will have chicken, some will be vegetarian ... just by taste, guided by what our friends have enjoyed over the years.
Welcome to Sunday Night...now that you've come you won't be invited again. We just expect you to show up.