Yesterday I realized that I cannot cook. It's been sometime since I've really tried to cook well. When the kids were little, I did know how to cook a few basic recipes.
I cooked beanie weenies and inside-out ravioli. They were staples at the dinner table, and the kids loved these tasty meals. But that was then, and to coin a cliche, this is now. Over the last two years, I've had such problems with my teeth (a total of five root canals) that eating good food was not a priority.
What resulted was a poking and prodding of my gums until they just ached with pain when I tried to eat. What happened was that I stopped eating hard to chew food. I focused on soft foods like mashed potatoes and [duh] I gained weight. Of the foods I did eat that required chewing, I'm sure, thinking back on it now) that I didn't chew my food very well, which is probably why I had some digestive problems. Luckily these problems seem to have gone away since I had my root canals and crowns.
For three weeks I have been a cooking fool. I've made fabulous salads, main dish meats with fancy sauces, and baked goods delight.
This morning after some review I realize that the egg omelette I made last week was gag puke up. Luckily, I have a wonderful honey. He never hinted that the food I was cooking was not so good. But I can't fool myself. Sooooo, today I'm turning over a new leaf. Goodness me, how hard can it be to learn how to cook.
I am a big fan of the Food Network and I've been paying close attention. I've even downloaded some recipes to get started.
Some of the problem is that I have diabetes and my husband has other food eating issues. Together there are a lot of no no foods for us. Low or light on sugar is one. Shake that salt somewhere else but not on her food is another. But lots of people have these challenges. I believe I can still whip up some amazing meals that taste good in our mouth, and are healthy for us, too.
So was great anticipation, today I am going to start on a learn how to cook food the right way so that we can enjoy it in a delicious taste fiesta. I mean that I want to bake a cake that doesn't feel like sand paper. Cook meat that isn't tough as a board. Fix vegies that are full of flavor.
That's my goal today, blog. I'll let you know more later. But I think what I need to do first is probably going to be an evaluation of the kitchen and the tools I have to cook with, because one of the things I noticed is I cannot thinly sliced potatoes, Julianne carrots, or whip up a cake. By the way I did try to make a cake and in that was a disaster.
One thing for sure, the Food Network is a lifesaver. I also have a dozen cookbooks and I hope they are not too outdated to give me some food making results.
That's all for today.
