Do you enjoy cooking?

Bijou

I have always loved cooking right from the days of rationing. I still make my own bread and cook everything from scratch. The days of making six Christmas cakes however are past.
My children used to do French exchanges and could never believe my cakes didn’t come from a patisserie. My Danish pastries won competitions and when I moved the WI members said that now some one else would be able to win the marmalade competition. I also used to demonstrate yeast cookery. Trouble is my husband would never eat out. “Why eat out when you have a good cook at home”

I understand. I spend at least 4 hours a day in kitchen and dining room. We cook well, why spend money, leave home and be disappointed by food prepared not as we prefer and noisy restaurants?

DH and I used to cook together and often entertained friends - but I cleared up because he was imaginative and adventurous but SO untidy.
Nowadays, I find I do enjoy cooking, it's kind of calming doing something familiar. But apart from cooking for guests, for me alone it's batch cooking for the freezer of stews, sauces, veg dishes etc.

My baking is almost always a disaster so I leave that to Mr D except in the matter of wedding cakes. (At least they were in tiers, so the failures could be replaced!!) And I really don't like cooking - unless it's for about 50 Guides over an open fire when I appear to be in my element! However, all of my offspring plus eldest granddaughter have been known to come home from work saying "I am soooo tired. I think I'll bake a cake to relax." I'm still trying to work out where I went wrong - or has it been self-preservation on their part?

No I don't! I wish I did but after 36 years of it I'm more than happy for someone else to do the honours 😅

Sadly not. I cook from scratch, but have only myself to cook for.
My mother was a very indifferent cook, and I cooked as a teenager, simply because that was the only way to get food I enjoyed.
At 76, and on my own again, I cook only because I prefer hot food to cold.
I so wish that I had been blessed with a man (or indeed anyone) who enjoyed cooking and would have saved me the trouble, even if it was only sometimes!

I only enjoy cooking if someone else is doing it.

I absolutely love cooking. At this time in our lives, I try to make one completely new (and sometimes quite complicated) dinner once a week. It doesn’t matter how good it is, we will never have it again, as there are too many good recipes out there to try before I die!!

I have just made the first toad in the hole of autumn which we are having with baby potatoes and green beans and gravy.

In a nutshell. No!

I wish I had married a man who loved cooking

Don't really enjoy cooking, eat to survive 😂 other half is happy cooking, just as well!

Norah

Bijou

I have always loved cooking right from the days of rationing. I still make my own bread and cook everything from scratch. The days of making six Christmas cakes however are past.
My children used to do French exchanges and could never believe my cakes didn’t come from a patisserie. My Danish pastries won competitions and when I moved the WI members said that now some one else would be able to win the marmalade competition. I also used to demonstrate yeast cookery. Trouble is my husband would never eat out. “Why eat out when you have a good cook at home”

I understand. I spend at least 4 hours a day in kitchen and dining room. We cook well, why spend money, leave home and be disappointed by food prepared not as we prefer and noisy restaurants?

4 hours?!!
I try and spend no longer than an average of 30 mins!

DH has taken over breakfast. Yippee.
He no longer chooses to have lunch. Again, yippee.

I try to do healthy on the whole. I just spend minimal time joining the ingredients together.
I eat raw veg anyway[will do cooked for DH]. And I find myself more and more drawn to salad. Cant think why!

fancythat

Norah

Bijou

I have always loved cooking right from the days of rationing. I still make my own bread and cook everything from scratch. The days of making six Christmas cakes however are past.
My children used to do French exchanges and could never believe my cakes didn’t come from a patisserie. My Danish pastries won competitions and when I moved the WI members said that now some one else would be able to win the marmalade competition. I also used to demonstrate yeast cookery. Trouble is my husband would never eat out. “Why eat out when you have a good cook at home”

I understand. I spend at least 4 hours a day in kitchen and dining room. We cook well, why spend money, leave home and be disappointed by food prepared not as we prefer and noisy restaurants?

4 hours?!!
I try and spend no longer than an average of 30 mins!

DH has taken over breakfast. Yippee.
He no longer chooses to have lunch. Again, yippee.

I try to do healthy on the whole. I just spend minimal time joining the ingredients together.
I eat raw veg anyway[will do cooked for DH]. And I find myself more and more drawn to salad. Cant think why!

I try and spend no longer than an average of 30 mins!
fancythat 😁

DH gets his own breakfast (I would just get in his way!), quite often he makes lunch for us both and I'm mostly in charge in the evenings.
He's a good peeler of vegetables.

Love cooking and baking,always have. I very rarely eat prepared food unless it's something like Pizza. Even when I was working used slow cooker and batch cooked at weekends. My children rarely had processed food, and in turn both my girls cook. Like you I also find it therapeutic,healthy and enjoyable. Also grow my own fruit and veg.

I always think pizza is a snack, not a proper meal.

Callistemon21 That word - Pizza - caught my eye.

As someone who never has enough pizza in my life, I find a really good wood-fired oven pizza and a salad is one of my favorite meals out! Totally satisfying, not just a snack. Mmm, mmm… 😋 🍕

I’ve always said - if you’re ever trying to solve a problem or or having a tough time - just add pepperoni!
USA Gundy

When you consider how important food is to our continuing life, not to mention our health and well being.

I find it quite shocking that so many people are indifferent to what they eat and are only interesting in filling their guts as quickly and cheaply as possible. In other countries, just as economically strapped as us,people are willing to spend a greater portion of their income on food and are more selective about what they eat.

I agree M0nica, the indifference to what people eat shows an absence of joy, whether eating alone or with family or dining out.

I’ve known people like that (usually very thin) and they’re not really happy people. Bread is the staff of LIFE.

Gundy

Callistemon21 That word - Pizza - caught my eye.

As someone who never has enough pizza in my life, I find a really good wood-fired oven pizza and a salad is one of my favorite meals out! Totally satisfying, not just a snack. Mmm, mmm… 😋 🍕

I’ve always said - if you’re ever trying to solve a problem or or having a tough time - just add pepperoni!
USA Gundy

I have had home-made pizzas (with home-made dough) made by an Italian lady, baked in an outdoor wood fired pizza oven and they do bear no resemblance to the ones you can buy in ths shops, even the good quality ones.

I keep a list of or favourite meals, some that take little effort and some that take time, so that when I just can’t think of what to have, I can hopefully get inspiration.

Nope don’t like cooking. Far more interesting things to do in my opinion. As I got older I find it more boring. If I do I’ll cook Italian food mainly and roast dinners , both of which the family like.

I’ve just spent a week at my partners and have reached the point of wanting to scream and run out of the house when it comes to meals. I can’t wait to be back in my own home where I can have egg on toast for tea.

Pizzas are really easy to make. When the kids were at home I often made them. I don’t think they are good for you, though. Now and then wouldn’t hurt.

nanna8

Pizzas are really easy to make. When the kids were at home I often made them. I don’t think they are good for you, though. Now and then wouldn’t hurt.

I find pizza quite easy to make.

We use a hot stone, in the outdoor cooker. No heat in the house, dough is easy to make and form, healthy, and children love.

Pizza is not an unhealthy food.

Nanna8
Depends on what you put on your pizza. Compared to eating fried eggs, sausages, bacon and fried potatoes (or anything fried!) every day… that is far unhealthier than eating a slice or two of pizza everyday.