Week 6 and a lifechanger for me...

ArtySue

Another happy birthday from me.

How lovely to have such a cheerful post! So many on Gransnet these days seem to criticise and moan!

Have a fantastic day and keep safe.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ArtySue!

I did all the cooking and baking in our household for the first 30 years of marriage, now my husband does most of it. He is cooking our Sunday roast as I type!

PS I have knitted lots of mushrooms and other veg. On that happy note I'm off to celebrate with my daughter, in a different room, just to ring the changes.

What lovely people you all are...
sarahellenwhitney - the soup was from the cookbook of Google. I can't remember which one exactly. My daughter suggested I add red lentils and it was good, plus a bit of chilli. (This post has certainly digressed: a lockdown/art class/birthday/cookery forum. Just like being with my best mates, where the conversation goes every which way. )

Happy Cake Day, ArtySue! Have a lovely day.
I’m still working, so not yet with much leisure time but I much prefer eating to cooking ?

The older I have grown the less iinterested I have become in cooking. Could exist on oatcakes, variety of cheeses, bit of fruit, homemade mushrooms and tarragon, broccoli and stilton soup. Used to love cooking/baking often taking to the kitchen late at naught to whip up something special for the family meals next day. Cooking seems so repetitive now.

My Mum tried to teach me to cook before I left home, but I didn’t get on very well. I got married and they all thought we would starve! After a few false starts I got into my stride and my Mum said my Christmas cake was better than hers!

Happy birthday ArtySue I cant draw for toffee nor can I sing. But I have always enjoyed cooking and used to enjoy sewing and knitting.
Callistemon I now make my quiches without pastry as they taste just as good and without the palaver of making the pastry. It started when I was on a low carb diet and now it just seems normal .

Happy Birthday, I have rediscovered my watercolours oh dear! would it be alright if I bring sausage rolls

That's wonderful, such a great discovery!

NanKate, join the Club! I love cooking but I am not averse to using the odd convenience food. Give your husband frozen vegetables occasionally and if he objects invite him to help prepare fresh ones. Meanwhile, I could happily enjoy your diet. Can't you persuade husband to try it if only for one day sometimes?

Happy Birthday ArtySue, what a lovely post this as made me smile. Have a lovely day and I hope you cook something nicex

Happy birthday ArtySue
Love the sound of that soup ! I will have to try it .
I have always cooked but I can’t bake .... my mother was a good baker and I wish I had paid more attention... although she wasn’t a great cook so I suppose we all have our wee things that we are better at .
Have a lovely day

I used to love cooking, but as I am now disabled it has become a huge chore and I don’t do it anymore Just standing stirring hurts and as for chopping stuff up, my hands seize up! Also often feel nauseous and don’t want to eat anything, so am living on soup and toast at the moment. Not great ....

Happy Birthday ArtySue! Please can I come to the lunch in the garden to celebrate with you? I used to feel I was no good at cooking, though I did it all the time for family - and then I discovered that I could enjoy it and make food people really enjoyed! Now it is a real pleasure - I mostly make up what I cook depending on what is in the fridge, but occasionally get new ideas from recipe books. Have a lovely day!

Happy birthday I have discovered bread making and cookie making

ArtySue
Well done, congratulations on your new acheivement.If I lived nearer I would join the others,and come for lunch what shall I bring?
A Happy Birthday to you.

Happy Birthday Artysue!
I too had an artistic mother but sadly I never inherited any of her talents. She was also a good cook but never followed a recipe - I've taken after her in that respect. Not that I'm a brilliant cook - but like she did I chuck everything in the pot and hope it turns out ok. It does, most of the time.

Artysue. Well its a start. Cumin, beetroot and tomato soup.What recipe book did that one come from ?

I just can’t get around to anything at the moment. I have worked, knitted, sewn, cooked and even done some building work in the past, but unfortunately age has overtaken enthusiasm. I did manage a Victoria sponge for DH birthday last week, but I mostly now follow YouTube with virtual cooking, sewing, gardening, any other practical skill - it’s a great time stealer!

Ooh, thanks for the tip, ArtySue ... I've got a tupperware full of tomatoes and one of beetroot (both grown by me last year) in the freezer plus some cumin in the cupboard, so guess what is a 'cumin' up next week?
Meanwhile, I'm no great cook - I do it but I don't enjoy it - however I'm just off to make some bread pudding which is enjoyable both in the making and the eating!

Wasnt it "squashed tomatoes and stew"?? - anyway happy birthday Artysue!

I used to paint but was never that good.

I'll bring quiche and a ?
Happy birthday ArtySue

Yesterday I surpassed myself and made quiche (my own pastry too); I hadn't made one for years but can't get to M&S at the moment.
I found the whole process so exhausting, it took three times as long as it used to, and I had to sit down with a G&T afterwards while DH made a salad.

Thank you both!!!