I like it. I remember working from 4 PM to 4 AM everyday for almost 10 years; we got off early a few times, but I didn't have time to cook. Then when that job was over, George looked at me one day and said, "Let me take you somewhere you haven't been in a while." Thinking I was going somewhere special, he showed me the kitchen, and I haven't left it yet. In fact, last night I made steak, corn on the cob, potato salad and my version of broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, carrots, garlic and onions cooked in a beef boullion. He couldn't stop bragging about how good it was. KUDOS to me.
Most woke people would find it insulting to have George send you to the kitchen, but I get he knew how fulfilling cooking is for you.
Yesterday I was craving a spinach gratin which is not especially appealing to Anne. Then she took some for lunch and liked it so much she took some again for today’s lunch.🥳💐
Wow. They say your 'taste buds' change as you get older. Sometimes people say they don't like something without having tried it. I on the other hand have always loved spinach as I grew up watching Popeye. Kek! So now that you know Anne likes it, you can make it more often and make a double batch.
I'm messing with you and u/brain_dead at the same time. He and I are talking about the 'fake meat' that Ron Desantis is banning and how we are cooking the sheep from the college. There is nothing like a good leg of lamb. Sheep; it's what's for dinner. Shish kabob I tell you. It's nothing but a barrel of laughs today. I love it.
Sounds delicious. I’m curious when you say lard because I know in French it means something similar to American bacon. And, for us it means a cooking fat rendered from pork, I think the French word for that is saindoux.
Thanks! I have a cold frame where I managed to keep a mix of greens, including spinach, growing through the winter. This sounds like the perfect recipe for what will probably be the final harvest before they all bolt and start flowering.
They totally do change; I got my parents to try things they'd eschewed for years because they didn't like them. They find they now loved them! Also they found that since things they'd always liked a lot didn't taste good to them anymore. They could not say the flavors had changed, but the amount they liked them did. We use that as well example to the kids, so that they'll try stuff and then try stuff again a year or two later, because taste buds change. Olives and avocado got added to the kids menu recently...
Agree most woke women would find it insulting. I love to cook as well and consider it a compliment when my husband requested me to cook something for him. He likes my cooking.
I appreciate that - I truly enjoyed cooking homemade, baking homemade - and I loved watching my family and friends enjoy what I had made. Physically, I can't do it anymore. I miss it. I try to do smaller, easier versions but it's not quite the same lol.
I'm glad you started cooking again! It would have been worth it to me also. I greatly enjoyed cooking meals and desserts my husband and kids loved. The pleasure on their faces was more than worth it, plus my enjoyment of cooking, made it more than worth my time. 😁
When my kids were little, they always loved to watch me cook our Christmas/Thanksgiving meals as I would always sing Christmas carols while I cooked. They knew then that Santa was on his way.
Try homemade whipped cream 🤤. My granddaughter loves it. We usually make some every time she comes over. She likes adding the vanilla extract and the confectioner sugar to the heavy whipping cream lol.
This isn't the only cooking video out there, tons of people are making them now. Maybe you could try your hand at it, the things you describe sound great! Plain fruit might need a bit of dressing up, though, like fancy cuts, to make them more photogenic.
I cook and if I’m hosting or going to a party, I cook and people appreciate it. My sisters are good cooks and when we get together we all make something. It comes from the heart and it just tastes better.
I grew peanuts last year and roasted them. They actually were good raw. I didn’t expect to grow but everything grew last year! Summer takes it up a notch with the garden!
I’m in the same growing zone. I was just planting yesterday and happy with carrots, potatoes and tomatoes who all returned. I told my neighbors about the tomatoes coming back and how I don’t want to kill the extras although two plants kept me busy cooking and freezing last Summer. The neighbors said heartlessly, “You have to.” Murders! I’m going to repot them and give to my family on Mother’s Day. I have to laugh at my response….
I'm glad to hear cooking is important. I remember a
young man who came to the house (service provider of some sort) who needed to talk to me, but I was pulling a pineapple upside-down cake out of the oven. You'd think I was performing an ancient ritual of some sort.
Is it a holiday? Someone's birthday? Special event? Uh, it's Tuesday if that's a help. I told him if he let it cool a minute, he could have some. Sent him on his way with 1/4 cake and an amazed look on his face. Making food had clearly not figured in his upbringing.
When I was a callow youth my parents paid be the princely sum of one dollar per day to cook dinner. With my feet to the fire I learned to cook pretty well. For the last 8 years of my father's life I was again cooking for him but not getting paid. It was incredibly satisfying that I could serve him once again to begin to repay all that I owed.
I like it. I remember working from 4 PM to 4 AM everyday for almost 10 years; we got off early a few times, but I didn't have time to cook. Then when that job was over, George looked at me one day and said, "Let me take you somewhere you haven't been in a while." Thinking I was going somewhere special, he showed me the kitchen, and I haven't left it yet. In fact, last night I made steak, corn on the cob, potato salad and my version of broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, carrots, garlic and onions cooked in a beef boullion. He couldn't stop bragging about how good it was. KUDOS to me.
Most woke people would find it insulting to have George send you to the kitchen, but I get he knew how fulfilling cooking is for you.
Yesterday I was craving a spinach gratin which is not especially appealing to Anne. Then she took some for lunch and liked it so much she took some again for today’s lunch.🥳💐
Wow. They say your 'taste buds' change as you get older. Sometimes people say they don't like something without having tried it. I on the other hand have always loved spinach as I grew up watching Popeye. Kek! So now that you know Anne likes it, you can make it more often and make a double batch.
That’s an easy one:
Cook until you cannot resist neither the smell nor the sight of the crusty cheese layer.😋💐
Wow. I will have to save this one too. Thanks.
I added an egg to the cream so the gratin would not be too moist.💐
I'm messing with you and u/brain_dead at the same time. He and I are talking about the 'fake meat' that Ron Desantis is banning and how we are cooking the sheep from the college. There is nothing like a good leg of lamb. Sheep; it's what's for dinner. Shish kabob I tell you. It's nothing but a barrel of laughs today. I love it.
Hmmm… Anne dislike lamb but I don’t, especially with plenty of garlic, thymian and rosmarin.😋💐
Lamb shish kabob are the best. I love Lebanese and Morocco shish kabobs the best.
Okie dokie!
Now that sounds so good.
Sounds delicious. I’m curious when you say lard because I know in French it means something similar to American bacon. And, for us it means a cooking fat rendered from pork, I think the French word for that is saindoux.
That would be small bits of bacon.
Thanks! I have a cold frame where I managed to keep a mix of greens, including spinach, growing through the winter. This sounds like the perfect recipe for what will probably be the final harvest before they all bolt and start flowering.
Bacon cooked in the air fryer is also delicious!!!
Actually I call lard what the German know as « Speck » and I eat it all either grilled or in elaborated plates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck
I bake mine as well! Sooooo good!
Dang, I’m hungry! 😋
They totally do change; I got my parents to try things they'd eschewed for years because they didn't like them. They find they now loved them! Also they found that since things they'd always liked a lot didn't taste good to them anymore. They could not say the flavors had changed, but the amount they liked them did. We use that as well example to the kids, so that they'll try stuff and then try stuff again a year or two later, because taste buds change. Olives and avocado got added to the kids menu recently...
Good for the kids. Mine won't eat squash or zucchini, but I believe that just like I was as a child, I too grew up to like them.
Agree most woke women would find it insulting. I love to cook as well and consider it a compliment when my husband requested me to cook something for him. He likes my cooking.
I appreciate that - I truly enjoyed cooking homemade, baking homemade - and I loved watching my family and friends enjoy what I had made. Physically, I can't do it anymore. I miss it. I try to do smaller, easier versions but it's not quite the same lol.
But at least you try and keep your hand in the kitchen. For 10 years I only got in the kitchen during the holidays when I had time off from work. Kek!
Lordy!! I'm glad you went back to one of your passions.
Thank you. It was like I had to teach myself how to cook all over again, but it was worth it.
I'm glad you started cooking again! It would have been worth it to me also. I greatly enjoyed cooking meals and desserts my husband and kids loved. The pleasure on their faces was more than worth it, plus my enjoyment of cooking, made it more than worth my time. 😁
When my kids were little, they always loved to watch me cook our Christmas/Thanksgiving meals as I would always sing Christmas carols while I cooked. They knew then that Santa was on his way.
I don't remember getting invited for that meal, sounds good. ;-)
I'm so sorry. My table always has a spare seat and extra plate.
Try homemade whipped cream 🤤. My granddaughter loves it. We usually make some every time she comes over. She likes adding the vanilla extract and the confectioner sugar to the heavy whipping cream lol.
This isn't the only cooking video out there, tons of people are making them now. Maybe you could try your hand at it, the things you describe sound great! Plain fruit might need a bit of dressing up, though, like fancy cuts, to make them more photogenic.
I cook and if I’m hosting or going to a party, I cook and people appreciate it. My sisters are good cooks and when we get together we all make something. It comes from the heart and it just tastes better.
Exactly! And it often costs less.
I even buy some dried nuts and grill and salt them myself. It’s hard for people to get back to their glutamate-flavored bagged peanuts after that.🤓
I grew peanuts last year and roasted them. They actually were good raw. I didn’t expect to grow but everything grew last year! Summer takes it up a notch with the garden!
We've been experimenting with all sorts of things here, zone 7... What growing zone are you? (Assuming USA)
I’m in the same growing zone. I was just planting yesterday and happy with carrots, potatoes and tomatoes who all returned. I told my neighbors about the tomatoes coming back and how I don’t want to kill the extras although two plants kept me busy cooking and freezing last Summer. The neighbors said heartlessly, “You have to.” Murders! I’m going to repot them and give to my family on Mother’s Day. I have to laugh at my response….
I'm glad to hear cooking is important. I remember a young man who came to the house (service provider of some sort) who needed to talk to me, but I was pulling a pineapple upside-down cake out of the oven. You'd think I was performing an ancient ritual of some sort. Is it a holiday? Someone's birthday? Special event? Uh, it's Tuesday if that's a help. I told him if he let it cool a minute, he could have some. Sent him on his way with 1/4 cake and an amazed look on his face. Making food had clearly not figured in his upbringing.
God bless you for sharing your bounty with that young man. You may have stirred something in him to learn how to bake,
I would really like to see the full video.
When I was a callow youth my parents paid be the princely sum of one dollar per day to cook dinner. With my feet to the fire I learned to cook pretty well. For the last 8 years of my father's life I was again cooking for him but not getting paid. It was incredibly satisfying that I could serve him once again to begin to repay all that I owed.
I'm lucky my wife cooks every night except Fridays.
I'm trying to finding the original video that this was snipped from. I know the voice is very familiar, but I can't put a name to it. Any help?
👉🏻 https://files.catbox.moe/tpbkk2.mp4