The Cooking Wife
Now, although my maiden name was Cook, I didn’t enjoy cooking until high school and even then, it was more of a last minute effort if I was starving. At college I didn’t have a proper kitchen to cook in, except the year I lived in Beasley so I was forced to eat off my free lunch plan as a RA and starve the other years. Kidding, mostly.
When I moved in to an apartment this past fall, I suddenly realized, “I’m getting married in 9 months, I should start cooking so I’m used to it by then.” So I began to cook here and there. It was hard to do so because I had a very busy fall schedule. Cooking and I had a few rough patches, until January came. Having no job and being frustrated with trying to find one, I took up cooking.
First it was the spices, Trina introduced me to the basics and then suddenly, I was opened to a whole new world. I was trying new recipes, cooking a lot and then there was Pampered Chef. I went to a party, got a new recipe and a lovely measuring cup that is my best friend.
Now I am a frequenter to allrecipes.com, an amazing resource and a few cooking blogs. The picture is from the other night when I cooked a new recipe, hot crush potatoes from thepioneeerwoman.com. Gray said it was one of the best meals I’ve made yet. He also loves the cheesecake chews I made yesterday.
So now I really enjoy cooking and baking foods, especially when my husband enjoys them, which isn’t really that hard. I was blessed to get an awesome cookbook as a wedding present and I’ve subscribed to a cooking magazine. I think cooking is highly understated.
I should have been a professional cook, but I’ll settle for being Gray’s. :)
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Tags: baking, cooking, Pampered Chef, spices
What cookbook did you get? What are cheesecake chews and is there a link to them? And what did you serve the crash hot potatoes with?