I think. Actually, this is my form of reverse pshychology. I really don't enjoy cooking, but I do enjoy eating and really want to be a better cook for my hubs and future kiddos. As with anything, I know that it takes practice. The problem with cooking is that the practice part also requires you to practice finding what to cook and to practice cleaning, too. I don't need any practice with that. I've got it down. I think. Those are two of the aspects of cooking that make it unloveable. With the good of anything you practice, there always comes some bad, right?
If you want to be a good teacher, you certainly have to endure a first year of chaos and some difficult students.
If you want to be a good wife, you certainly have to be willing to to give up some things that you used to feel are worth dying for so that you can please the hubs.
If you want to be good at grammar, you have to endure some learning of rules. (I've probably said that a few times to a few 8th graders.)
If you want to become a good half marathon runner, you certainly have to endure the running part.
(These all have to do with my life, though I'm certain I am still working towards the good part in all of them. Except for maybe running, I'm not even trying to be good!)
Because of this desire of mine, I made a "New April's Resolution". I'm allowing (and by allowing I mean making) myself try one new recipe a week to be placed in a "I heart cooking" binder. This madness comes from my desire to heart cooking and to have enough recipes to not make tacos every week. This has probably been happening in some homes, some where. Not mine. Nope. Never. Ok, it has. I confess. Tacos were our number one, over-made recipe. Give me some credit; I did mix it up: chicken tacos, beef tacos, low-fat beef tacos, ground turkey tacos, soft tacos, hard tacos. With this resolution, I desire two things:
1. To be a better cook
2. To have more than two recipes in my repertoire
I'm getting there, but I have a long ways to go. Many of these have come from The Pioneer Woman, another blog that I stalk. She has pics of the process and end product which helps decide if I want to make it and if I will like it. It's beautiful. Check it out. Here's what I've gotten so far:
Week One:
My opinion for what it's worth: (If you're like me, you're much more likely to cook something if someone else says they like it. It's like the peer pressure you felt to curl your bangs ridiculously high in middle school; everyone else said it was cool, so you did it too.) This lasagna was so great. I have made homemade lasagna before from the Italian lady on the Food Network. Three words: Too Much Work! This lasagna was fairly easy (not as easy as tacos but whatever) and yum, yum, yummy! We had dinner guests that night, and they gave many compliments to the chef, which was me by the way. Check mark!
This particular night I also made Yellow Cupcakes (from scratch!) with Sticky Chocolate Icing. The problem with these is that the cake part tasted more like cornbread. It's just too weird to eat cornbread with chocolate icing. Needless to say, they won't be going in my binder. Dang. I wasted some Godiva chocolate baking bars. Live and learn.
Week Two:
Nothing.
Give me some credit here, I tried two recipes the first week. I'm not a failure at this. Yet.
Week Three:
My opinion for what it's worth: They were good. However, they're definitely not Chuy's or any decent Mexican restaurant for that matter. They're pretty easy though, so I'll add them to the "I heart cooking" binder.
I also made Orange Mini-Muffins. Two words: MMMM Good. I took them to school, and though the didn't all get eaten, I am still putting them in the binder. I liked them, and isn't that what matters? (Hubs was out of town, so he missed the delicious-ness of these goodies.)
I have one more week to add, but this is getting entirely too long. Next time. It's delish as said by hubs and me. (And the person from whom I got the recipe.)
Labels: I heart cooking., Lovely Friends
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