Cooking Blues
On average I would say that I really enjoy cooking and do a lot of it. But sometimes I get into these ruts where horses can’t drag me into a kitchen for weeks at a time. As you could probably guess I am in one of those ruts right now and have been for weeks, which has resulted into eating out too much, too much junk food, or boring late, and often not very nutritious ‘lets see what we have in the pantry that can go straight into my mouth’ dinners at home.
This is then is often followed by me kind of yelling at myself (in my head) and telling myself that I just am not taking good care of my family, and if only I made that little bit of effort my family would be eating fresh, healthy, home cooked meals while all sitting around the table together enjoying the food and each other. And why can’t I just be less lazy, and step it up and do what I supposed to be doing.
Obviously not a very motivating and uplifting train of thoughts. Yet another reason for me to get out of my cooking rut, and figure out a way to get back to my usual way of cooking much and (key ingredient) enjoying it!
Thankfully, my friend Jessica just reminded me of one trick that ‘s worked really well for me to get my cooking-groove back in the past, which is parking myself in front of some great cooking TV shows and getting the juices flowing that way. So as I type this, me and Nolan are enjoying some quality Food network programming. An added bonus is that Nolan apparently really likes cooking shows! Who knew? He keeps looking and me and saying “MOM. did you find a COOKING SHOW?!? YYYYYAAAAAYYYYY!” He loves helping me in the kitchen, so I guess this shouldn’t surprise me.
Another thing that I hope to motivate me is a Thai cookbook I have on loan from a friend. The nice thing about cooking Thai is that most recipes pretty much use any of only about 20 ingredients over and over again. So one trip to the grocery store will have you set for 99% of the recipes in the book.
So hopefully, thanks to cooking show inspiration coupled with the tasty possibilities in this cook book, home cooked meals will soon be the regular once again in this household.
Now you’ll have to excuse me, Nolan just handed me a booger I need to dispose of.
