davidsprincess's Journal, 05 Nov 21

Need to discover my blender soups. Throw in vegetables, spices and blend, then heat in microwave dinner quicker than frozen dinners. However I agree with Hebrews on yogurt or cottage cheese from the container is s quick easy fix. 

i hate cooking 😭😭😭😭 

Lol spark unfortunately that's a $5 a day habit for me. 😝😝 

Oh, I have never enjoyed cooking! I am no Chef Sk.17!!!🙃 I guess it’s because many times all that effort and it’s served too cold or burnt, and then the clean up, time consuming! 😞 Of course Mariel doesn’t do fast food, but she does for it’s all right there in her garden, she walks out and back into the kitchen!🪴😄 Good going John, didn’t realize what a good cook you are!👍 ACBella, same here, when I cook I clean, when hubby cooks, BOY DO I CLEAN! He has never heard of clean as you go. 😕 Khrissy, I cooked so much when I was younger, I am burnt out with old age! Sad, for we should be great cooks as grandmas.😖 Tim I am with you, 💕 DP face!😊 I’m sorry going on and on in your post DP, it’s a good one, reviewing who likes to cook, I am definitely with you, and Andrew! Open yogurt eat!🤣 Hey, I make a mean delicious coffee, just have to push a button like the Jetsons!😁 Have a Spectacular Saturday DP!🌼 

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Oh boy... I like to cook when I have time for something fun and an appreciative "audience." I am sick to death of mass producing huge meals for my clan. Maybe in my future I will be cooking lovely little, creative meals... Or maybe not! 😁 Cooking... A big part of my life I don't enjoy much! ♥️😬 

I like to cook. When I was married, with children, I could walk into the house and have dinner on the table in 30 minutes, I had it down to a science. And, yes, I clean as I go. I'm not much for following recipes, though I do get ideas from them. These days, I'm more of an open the 'fridge, see what I can put together & cook in one pot, or in the oven. 

I missed this conversation. 😔 I'm a ♋ 🦀 too. I used to like to cook for my family, but now only when I have the energy. When we have guests or the kids come or we visit them, I will cook for them. Overall, it's very enjoyable for me. 👩‍🍳 

And about the cleaning up - I did it myself for years, but now Joe cleans up after I cook, most of the time. I used to feel so guilty about him cleaning, now anymore. 💗 

Becky we always had a rule cook doesn't do the dishes. Worked out well for us. Of course my wife is a hella cook. She did all the inside stuff. Me being the caveman I did the outside cooking. Fire RRR.  

Andrew, I believe couples should do whatever works for them. Joe and I are pretty traditional. He worked and I raised the kids and kept house. I was a stay at home mom and enjoyed it (most of the time). Joe is definitely a caveman too, in that he takes care of the outside stuff. He's been retired for a little over 7 years now and does more inside the house, but he spends the majority of his day outside. 😊 

I like to cook, especially the experimental stuff, but I constantly have to prioritize my time. Life.  

You forgot that your husband eats a lot of pizza too! Cooking like other chores can be, well, a chore! If I have all day I enjoy thumbing through recipes, seeing if I have the ingredients and then experimenting with my own flavor and spending a good deal of time cooking. If we have games or practices? Nope! I will thaw and brown ground beef that afternoon and once home i will throw in some taco seasoning or maybe add noodles and gravy. If I’m super short on time it’s a drive thru, left overs, soup and sandwiches and the occasion ramen noodle night. My mood that day reflects my willingness to cook as well! If I’m stressed and irritated they’ll get an easy favorite I know by heart and can file while I cook OR if I’m happy and upbeat they may get a surprise of a new meal I threw together because it sounded good. Sometimes all those delicious ingredients don’t taste so good mixed together 😝. Once when we were fighting I threw a bunch of stuff together (ahead of time in the crockpot before we were fighting) and didn’t get to eat it because I can’t eat when upset. Kids said it’s the best meal I’ve made in a LONG time! Dammit! Now I can’t remember what I put in there other than meat, rotel, some kind of soup, veggies and potatoes and no clue on the seasonings 🤦‍♀️. Of course they wanted me to write down the recipe the next day and I couldn’t remember because I’d cleaned up the cans and put away the seasonings I’d left out in case they liked it. Now I try to leave arguing until AFTER dinner! (We don’t argue often) 

What lively conversation this little post has provided! I love reading everyone's stuff. I just don't like it- the mess is irritating and I am just not good at it. Usually I will cook on the weekends when I have more time. The thing is that it is a family divided. No one likes the same thing. Hubby will eat anything I make but some things are not a favorite. The stuff everyone likes makes me sick- so the chicken meals- whether it is chicken tacos or more recently chicken pot pies- I cannot partake once I prepare the chicken. it repulses me. Now bloody red meat- any kind of beef I really like. But no one cares for chili that much or meatloaf and so if I make it- I end up eating about 75% of it and it really sucks. And for some reason I have never- not ever- been able to cook pork chops. They are terrible. I finally just gave up. Just chewy and odd texture. The little one likes salmon- the older doesn't. And so on and so forth. Or David will wake up from third shift and not want to eat right away which is when dinner is served and I understand completely but it still is sad to not eat it while it is hot after I have slaved away. LOL. Lots of sandwiches being eaten or frozen crap to toss in the oven. Not super healthy but whatever. Home cooked meals 2 days out of the week. That's all I can muster up. 

I love to cook and try new recipes. I usually end up with leftovers to freeze, so the freezer fills up fast. I do not like the clean up. 

I used to try to cook to make everyone happy. But I stopped doing that, because you just can't please everyone. I cook whatever I want and if my husband or my daughter doesn't like...there's cereal. Also in my house, whoever cooks has to do the dishes. I clean as I go, rinsing dirty dishes, putting everything in the sink. That way after dinner finishing the dishes is a breeze. My husband doesn't do that. He makes a mess, he leaves a mess. Why should he get the easy job of a practically clean kitchen when I cook and I get a tornado zone when he's cooked....no way. You make it, you clean it. And thankfully my daughter is learning the right way, my way. When she cooks, she cleans and it's like no one was ever in my kitchen. 

ACBelle— yep, helps for the stars to align. When I make something new I make it as the recipe is written the first time. After that I try to tweak it if possible to lighten it up or to increase nutritional value in some way.. I sneak in nutritional yeast into all kinds of things; sprinkle on salads, add to soups, mix in with scrambled eggs and sprinkle on vegetables, mix into biscuit and cornbread mixes. Good stuff. Read up about it. Good protein source. 

Kenna. I've been looking at nutritional yeast a little bit. If you believe it, some food are not meant for asian body chemistry. Not 100% sure about nutritional yeast yet. Hubs is so confused with all the "new" normal food. Lol, he's adjusting to less red meat & fish 3x a week. The most recent things I been buying is flax seed & chia seeds. Hubs is 50% meat & potatoes. He will try new things, but there's an adjustment period. I have to give him some time to get used to the new pantry items. He thinks I follow everything that's trendy, not just food.  

My husband never cooked, indoors or out, I cannot imagine how he survived after we divorced, it must have been quite an adjustment. When my sons cooked, they cleaned, I cannot abide a dirty kitchen. Nowadays, when we get together, we often cook together, and the rule is, no one leaves the kitchen until everything is clean. 

I am Virgo and I hate the kitchen , I just cook to survive 🙃.