laughable
I never really learned to cook. I could follow a recipe and bake something and it would turn out okay. As far as actual cooking went, I just never learned. I had to call my mother-in-law when I was 25 to ask her how to make baked potatoes. I was not a risk taker in the kitchen. A recipe was always necessary.. no natural instinct. Fortunately, I discovered that food cooked in the oven was very forgiving if I used a Pampered Chef Baking Stone. Then a few years ago, my remote control landed on Food Network. We can all taste the difference.
My husband on the other hand.. he doesn't mind taking risks in the kitchen. Much of what we cook is though of, shopped for and prepped by me, then like the doctor who comes in at the last second to catch the baby, my darling husband whips the dish together. I am not complaining. Really, I am not. He has an impeccable sense of timing. So between the two of us, our family is not starving.
We have come quite a long way from the early days of our courtship, when meals came from takeaway or the toaster oven or microwave. Even farther from the days when meals came delivered frozen on a yellow Schwan's truck.
The fun part about cooking for our family is the diversity. Yes, I am being a bit sarcastic here. Daddy was fussy as a child. His dear mom, God bless her, she tried and tried to get him to eat well with not much success. He will not eat cooked vegetables. No crockpot meals. No casseroles.
Julian is garlic boy. He could eat garlic pasta everyday.
Timothy may as well be a vegetarian. He will eat bits of meat with steaksauce. He loves tabasco and spicy beans.. yet, he is the only one. Besides me, that is.
Maximilian enjoys meat the most. He tolerates pasta.
Since Pier-Jerome turned three his fussiness kicked in.
Elaina will pretty much eat anything on Mommy's plate. Her new trick is to simply spit back out anything that does not immediately please her palate. Well, isn't that fun! I have no idea where that one came from, but it would be nice if that trick left as quickly as it arrived.
And me. I'm not fussy. Just no beets, green, red, yellow or orange peppers, raw onions and being a former vegetarian, there are a few meats that I am 'just not there yet' with.
So what do we eat? This blog will answer that. There was a time when I considered myself a "nightmare in the kitchen." It is absolutely laughable that I share our culinary details in a blog. Here goes anyway.
