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DonSchenck · 02-02-2011, 08:23 PM

My wife has two Culinary degrees, and she's been coaching me for the past four years or so. I love love LOVE to cook.

Anyone else?

I also LOVE to shop for groceries. I put on my earbuds and turn my iPod to "Pirates" music ... from the Pirates Of The Caribbean soundtracks. Then, like Walter Mitty, I imagine my shopping cart to be The Black Pearl, and I'm looting the store!

Yeah, I'm a bit crazy. It helps.

-- Don

***Darrell*** · 02-02-2011, 08:48 PM

I like to cook as well but I just don't have the time to go grocery shopping and do the proper prep.

I'm hoping one of these days when my daughter is a little older and can fend for herself more I'll have that luxury.

Historian · 02-03-2011, 04:04 AM

Ok, I'll bite. I love to cook, as well. I've been perfecting my artisan breads currently, but I'm always trying something new when I can. Lobster chowder was the most recent venture into the exotic.

KimBowen · 02-03-2011, 01:29 PM

I HATE to cook!!!! Which always used to make me feel bad. A good IFB wife is the perfect hostess and invites many to her home to further the cause of Christ.

Phew! Glad those days are behind me Big Grin

PS-I'll confess I bought (via cater) the whole Thanksgiving meal last November from a local restaurant. It was quite delicious though, and everyone had a good time (and I wasn't a batty crazy woman trying to cook).

Tikatu · 02-03-2011, 02:06 PM

I'm not fond of cooking myself, so my husband and oldest son do most of that. I do, however, like to bake.

**pastor's wife** · 02-03-2011, 02:55 PM

(02-03-2011 01:29 PM)KimBowen Wrote: I HATE to cook!!!! Which always used to make me feel bad. A good IFB wife is the perfect hostess and invites many to her home to further the cause of Christ.

That's me. I finally figured out what has played into my dislike of cooking: 1) I strangely feel I have to be perfect (being the first-born daughter of fundy parents might play into this) and get upset when my food doesn't turn out, 2) I hate wasting money and when food doesn't turn out, I always think about how much I paid for it, 3) I'd rather be reading books or playing the piano and 4) good cooking takes creativity and I tend to pour my creativity into teaching and planning programs and feel that nothing's left for cooking.

I've often felt guilty that I'm not the perfect hostess and that I don't enjoy preparing food in the church kitchen for the fellowship meals.

**Phatchick** · 02-03-2011, 04:38 PM

I've always seen cooking as another talent. Most of us can cook enough to keep from starving but only a few are going to be gormet chefs. I'm not the best cook on the planet but I am a pretty good baker. I've been told (only half in jest) that the main reason I'm invited to parties and potlucks is because I bring my lemon bars. I have to make some cookies in a little while.

Katerpillar · 02-04-2011, 12:53 AM

I LOVE to cook! I think it is one of those things that some people are good at, and others just do to survive, but I'm glad I enjoy it. I've come to the point where I don't even like restaurant food that much because I can make all the same food at home for less, and it tastes better (especially if you make it mostly from scratch). Of course, it's nice to have a break from the kitchen once in a while, and I love it when my husband takes me out to eat on a date, but I usually go someplace where I can choose a dish that is so tasty that I will look it up online later and try to copy it at home sometime. (Seriously, I did that with the Penne Rosa from Noodles & Company. It is SO delicious homemade!).

Oh, and I'd probably fit perfectly into that whole "IFB cookie cutter wife" thing because I even have my own recipe blog. Tongue

But seriously, I just love to cook.

Historian · 02-04-2011, 01:16 AM

(02-04-2011 12:53 AM)Katerpillar Wrote: I've come to the point where I don't even like restaurant food that much because I can make all the same food at home for less, and it tastes better (especially if you make it mostly from scratch).

I know just what you mean. I only like to go out places that make something I don't have the patience for, or don't have the equipment to make (I'm in China). Otherwise it always tastes like a waste.

Katerpillar · 02-04-2011, 01:35 AM

(02-04-2011 01:16 AM)Historian Wrote:
(02-04-2011 12:53 AM)Katerpillar Wrote: I've come to the point where I don't even like restaurant food that much because I can make all the same food at home for less, and it tastes better (especially if you make it mostly from scratch).

I know just what you mean. I only like to go out places that make something I don't have the patience for, or don't have the equipment to make (I'm in China). Otherwise it always tastes like a waste.

That reminds me, we ate at this place called P.F. Chang's China Bistro one time (definitely not a place we could afford to eat at on a regular basis), and it was awesome. I don't think I could copy the food there, without putting a lot of work into it. I really enjoy eating at a place like that.