It's pretty interesting. I feel like I'm relearning things that I already know. Like, I know that cooking at home is better for you as is cooking from scratch but sometimes, it's just so much easier to use a mix or eat out. For those of you who don't know, Tony and I have been eating out a ton...like for every meal. It's expensive. With Tony being out of work and I not having much overtime and doctors appointments and prescription costs...things are just not working out financially so I have turned into a recipe-aholic. I love reading Rachael Ray's magazine. I'm addicted to allrecipes.com. Food network is my go to tv station when I have a chance to watch tv. I am your typical foodie I guess. Well, I have decided that I am done eating out. I'm sick and tired of all the fat filled, cholesterol laiden, artery clogging crap out there. I am sick of McDonalds. No more Burger King for this girly. The occasional El Maguey's will be nice but really, who needs it! I am going to find out how to make the foods that I love to eat at home! I'm going to learn to make them a little healthier and just as tasty! That's my goal for this year. I am going to try and make it 1 month without eating out. It's going to be a challenge because we are on the go alot and I sleep most of the day and am home at night but that's what a microwave is for! Now, I just need my mom to stay home more often so that I can use the kitchen!
I absolutely love having my mother live above us. She is such a wonderful person and I get see her almost everyday. I love having her around. She and I are incrediably close. I can honestly say that between her and my husband, I really don't need many other friends. I have everything that I need with those two! It is nice to be able to hang with others and to enjoy other people's company but if I didn't have other friends and only had those two, I would be just fine! And to me, that's nice to know. I love being able to talk cooking with my mom and get her opinion on stuff. I love to figure out what I did wrong with a recipe and have her help me figure out how to make it better. I love having a husband who will pick up a new recipe, knowing that I really want to try it but sometimes I'm just soo tired and just can't seem to find the energy to make it, so he makes it himself!! We then go over the recipe and figure out what we would do differently, if anything, the next time we make it. It seems we always give a recipe a shot and then we change it. Or if I'm making something and I know that I would add more spice to it, I do!
I love being able to play in the kitchen with my mom and my husband. It's such a delight. The other day, my mom wanted to make pancakes but realized that she didn't have the pancake mix so she found a recipe and turned it into corn fritters...omg..they were absolutly amazing! I have never tasted anything so fabulous in my life!!! So I wanted to see what they would taste like using the pancake mix...yep...I will be sticking with a homemade pancake mix....so much better than the prepackaged stuff! So it will be interesting to see what other stuff I can make from scratch that's sooo much better! It's a new adventure in cooking for me! I'm kinda excited. Now, what I really want to do is find an awesome new mexican cookbook and cook my way through mexico! I think that would be fun. And then I want to cook my way through an Italian cookbook, making homemade pastas and everything. Although, I'm not sure how cute my bowtie pasta is going to be!
I was thinking the other day about how "domesticated" I have become. Like I want to learn how to make my own candles and my own soap. Not necessarily the old fashioned way, and I definitely don't want to learn to make my own butter, but I think there are some things that are ridiculously expensive that can be made at home possibly cheaper but definitely better for you. One of the ladies that I work with thinks it crazy ridiculous to try and make things at home. Now, I'm not talking about sewing and things like that...because there is no way that that holds my attention. But I think that soap making and candlemaking could be interesting. So one of the things that I want to do this year is learn how to do those things. I mean, how tough can it really be! Well, we shall find out. You know, it's already March...I need to get started on these things but I really need to have my own kitchen to do these things and get out of my mama's kitchen. I know she can't wait to have her kitchen back but she doesn't have to cook much right now...no complaining Ma!
Talking about being "domesticated." I look back at some of the things that I like to do and never thought that I would be any good at any of it. I love to scrapbook and I love to bead. Who would have thought that I was creative in that way. Apparently I am loving being creative in the kitchen too. I love to cook. I remember when I was younger and my dad made me cook and I hated it. I think it was because it was something that he made me do. My mom told me that my dad was worried that I would be a failure in the kitchen and I almost was until I discovered my love for cooking. I had to be the one to change my mindset and realize that I really did like to do it and I could be creative in what I do. I used to tell people that I was never creative and sometimes I still feel that way. I "scraplift" a lot as well as lift other people's jewelry ideas but you know, there's nothing wrong with that. I still have to match up different papers to go with my pictures or i still have to find beads that will work with a particular design...so in that sense, I am still being creative. I may not be the one coming up with the actual design but I still have to make it my own in some way! That's the part that I like. Oh well, maybe I am more creative than I thought!
I don't have any recipes today to share but I am off this weekend so hopefully some cooking will get done! I do plan on sleeping some on Saturday though! Working this overtime is hard stuff when you work overnights! Bye for now!
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