I love to bake too, but neither of us needs the calories so I don't do it very often anymore. And generally when I do bake something I share it with others so we don't have 5 dozen cookies or a big cake here to eat all by ourselves.
Yes, I am a good cook and a good baker. People compliment me so I assume they like it too.
My children weren't "allowed" to be picky. It was food, I paid for it, and cooked it soooooooo ya better eat it. Worked well since they were eating "flucosises" (translation: people who eat anything that's not nailed down).I like to cook and think I am pretty good-I collect cook books and enjoy them like a novel- unfortunately for all my married with children life- more than 30 years I have cooked for the pickiest bunch ever
The ex and I had different schedules but I came to the conclusion that our ideas about cooking differed and he was eventually banned from working in my kitchen. Yes, I said my...it was the only space that belonged exclusively to me since I was surrounded by one man and two wannabes. I did teach my sons how to cook but according to their SOs the lessons might not have taken too well. I'm still the person who organises and implements holiday meals so guess I'll learn what that generation learned later. This year's Disney vac in December will be my first foray into not hosting Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Hanukah, Kwanzaa or New Year's Eve.I did all the cooking in our household for 17 years. My wife is a wonderful cook, but I worked overnights, and she worked 9 am to 6 pm, and it made no sense for her to get home at 630 and start fixing dinner when i get up, pick the kids up from school, fix dinner and we could sit down and eat at 630 pm. It ended when our youngest hit high school, and I moved to a day shift, and my wife moved to an 8 am to 5 pm shift and could have dinner on the table at 6 pm.
Wow you are really a nice mom to cook twice a week for your son and his family.Yes....I can cook and enjoy it most of the time. Need a break now and then.
I also cook 2 meals a week for DS and his family....and a family meal at my house once a week
I LOVE to bake!
My children weren't "allowed" to be picky. It was food, I paid for it, and cooked it soooooooo ya better eat it. Worked well since they were eating "flucosises" (translation: people who eat anything that's not nailed down).
My DGD is of a completely different generation in all senses of the word.
She is just now thinking about eating cheese, won't eat anything with gravy or sauce, thinks mushrooms are fungi (well they are but but..) and once chastised me when I made sausage patties instead of links (mind you I ground the meat and seasoned it myself) saying:" Noonie, can't you even get the shape right?"
One Christmas I made a croquembouche at her request because it looked "cute" in a book on holiday treats. It's profiteroles stuffed with pastry cream and glued together with caramel and covered with spun sugar. here's the version I made:
She refused to eat it becauseeeeeee the pastry cream looked like raw beaten eggs in her mind. Sighhhh.
On the bright side everyone else enjoyed it.
I did all the cooking in our household for 17 years. My wife is a wonderful cook, but I worked overnights, and she worked 9 am to 6 pm, and it made no sense for her to get home at 630 and start fixing dinner when i get up, pick the kids up from school, fix dinner and we could sit down and eat at 630 pm. It ended when our youngest hit high school, and I moved to a day shift, and my wife moved to an 8 am to 5 pm shift and could have dinner on the table at 6 pm.