I’ll Bet You All Didn’t Think That I Can Cook

I remembered you saying you can cook. I don’t like cooking, but I do it because it’s just healthier. I want to feel the best I can, and if cooking is how I can do it I guess I will. But boy would I like to have my own personal home chef.

I admit I am surprised. Not because I thought you couldn’t cook, but because of your relationship with food. Now, of course, I am interested in how / why the issues with food started.

maybe you just get tired of all those number of years cooking

But can you cook with fire?

Who knew? Actually, I kind of did. So long as whatever you do now works, who's to judge?

Cooking for 10 to 12 people for 26 years is no small thing, I am impressed. Corn pudding and sausage balls sound so good, and don't worry about the lasagne, it is a hard one to get right. Maybe cook one of your favorites on a weekend just for yourself, you deserve a good meal too.

I remember you saying before that you could cook but you normally didn't anymore. There's nothing wrong with that, in my opinion. (I actually wanted to tease you and had a good tease ready but you don't always "get" my humor so I refrained. ) I'm so tired of cooking that I'd love it if Pretty would go out to eat once in a while but she hates to spend money if we don't need to spend it. So I cook at least one meal and usually, two meals a day and eat a sandwich or something frozen and heated up for the other meal. I've cooked since I was 13 and took over cooking when I got tired of eating the same meal every day straight for a week. (Mom could cook but she'd always cooked for herself, dad, and sixteen kids. By the time I started cooking, there were only mom, my youngest brother and I still living at home and mom couldn't figure out how to cook small amounts so we ate the same thing every meal until the foods she made were eaten.)

I don't cook every night, but sometimes it is quite satisfying to make a meal from scratch

I remember a few times that through no fault of anyone, I had to eat restaurant meals daily for a week, two, whatever--when my Aunt was in the hospital in ICU for a long time and I couldn't leave her there alone, it was two weeks of no home cooked anything. I was so, so sick of restaurants. And when I used to occasionally have to travel for work, I would get sick of it, too. After a while, it's just not fun anymore. If I had the finances, I would enjoy going once a week or every two weeks, if nothing but to try something new. But I honestly do like to cook. Eating one meal a day isn't recommended by doctors...but I am sure your husband has heard that many times. If you made something he really likes, would he eat some of it for another meal?

I never thought about whether you could cook at all Not even when you mentioned eating out a lot So honestly I do believe you can cook, most likely very well