1. I think I am a very good cook...
2. ...That being said, I am ashamed to admit that more often than not we eat cold cereal or macaroni and cheese for dinner.
3. The first meal I ever cooked was scrambled eggs. To this day, I still think my scrambled eggs are the best!
4. I hate cleaning up after I've been cooking.
5. My mother, grandmother, and aunts are all amazing cooks, and have passed down a lot of their knowledge to me.
6. I truly believe that anyone can be a good cook if they have the desire (and some good recipes).
7. I collect cookbooks that my mom had or used while I was growing up.
8. I hated green beans as a kid, and to this day the smell of them makes me gag.
9. I have eaten exotic foods such as: chicken hearts, alligator, swordfish, quail eggs, and rattlesnake.
10. Mike is the bomb at breakfast foods and barbecue. I ♥ his french toast!
11. Why is it that food always tastes better if someone else cooks it?
12. Recipes are merely guidelines and not rules. I love to experiment.
13. Mike thinks that my best dinners are usually soups. Clam chowder, chicken enchilada, tomato basil, creamy chicken noodle, no-fart chili, cheesy potato, and corn chowder to name a few.
14. I love to cook, but I don't like to bake. I leave the desserts to Marie Calendar.
15. I put onions and garlic in almost everything I make.
16. I LOVE my Pampered Chef oven mitt. (Perfect for the girl who is afraid of getting burned!)
17. I have never cooked with or purchased SPAM.
18. My favorite meal of the year is Christmas Eve dinner: Chicken Cordon Bleu, cornflake potatoes, stuffed mushrooms, honey glazed carrots, and homemade orange rolls.
19. I love that food and cooking bring people together.
20. One of my goals this year is took push myself out of my comfort zone and try 10 new recipes.
What are some of your cooking confessions?
9 comments:
I was always jealous that my Mom taught my brother to bake and cook instead of me. She said that I was more interested in playing basketball outside. I just loved a boy who played basketball outisde. ;)
My toy as a child that I always wanted but never got was an easy bake oven.
I have bitter feelings towards this day towards my high school in Cali for not having Home Ec. For this reason my husband learned to cook before I did. :)
The crock pot is my savior! I recently learned that the crockpot = amazing chicken. And no mess clean up can be accomplished with a crock pot.
I too have goals about cooking with the new year.
I have learned a love of cooking and baking that I never knew.
I have turned in to a tight wad recently. And it has made me realize how much money we save when cooking at home than eating out!
I too love collecting new and old cookbooks. My latest want of cookbooks is a crock pot recipe book from Costco. And a new healthy versions food cook book by Roco Dispirito.
In my best Julia Childs voice.....BON APPETITE!
We are so alike!!
I seriously said YES! to everything here.. except for the experimenting. I'm a recipe follower.. I havent dared to brave the "what if we do this!"
I'm too much of a coward.
I am NOT a baker.. but I want the smell.. so I make rolls and stuff often.. just not from scratch!
I will probably NEVER make my own bread unless we are starving to death/or I can't buy it.
What is this NO FART chili you speak of? I want this recipe! ha-ha
PS: Once a week.. we have breakfast for dinner. --Then Chad makes it.. and I don't have to worry about it on a hectic cleaning day!
Megan! You are so funny sometimes! Green beans, BLAH! Chicken hearts, alright I'll eat that! I think you are an amazing cook! Everything I have tried that you have made have been excellente! I am especially intrigued by your soups. I think men seem to excel in breakfast. Your husband and french toast, Chad and his pancakes, my husband and his omelettes. Perhaps we need to get the men together to make us the most incredible breakfast we have ever known!!
Let's see, some of my confessions...
1. Nobody really liked eating the meals I made until about 2 years ago.
2. I had never tried most fruits and vegetables until I was married, no actually it was a few years after that.
3. I LOVE to make Desserts! Flour, Yes! Sugar, Yes please! Comes in pastry form, just bring it in multiple trays, I could eat them all.
4. I have messed up making homemade ice cream 4 times within a 2 week period. I think I got it now and it is one of my favorite summer treats to make.
Well, enough about me! You know what I want to see you post one day. I want to see the aprons that you wear when you cook. I would love to see that! Hope you have a wonderful day! -Suzanne
Megan
we are so alike. There were only 2 that I wasn't shaking my head in agreement. They were the husband and his French toast (Jordan doesn't/can't/won't cook) and the green beans-I don't mind them and my kids LOVE them. We should do a recipe exchange sometime instead of a movie and dinner. I love those. Here are a couple of confessions
1-I love to cook and I feel like I'm getting better at it. I like to bake too. The sweeter the better!
2-sugardoodle cookies scare me. I made them once when I was 8 and they came out hollow. I seriously am baffled to this day on where the middle part of the cookies went. And I have yet to try them again.
3-soups are my speciality too
4-I follow a recipe the first time and then I get alittle more relaxed.
5-one of my resolutions this year is to try a new recipe from one of my books each month. I have a bad habit of finding something that everyone likes and making it all the time. I feel like it's time to venture out and live life alittle!
Loved the post...thanks for sharing!
I love the post. I am an experimenter in the kitchen too, but Nate doesn't care for soup, so I don't make it very often. I love to read cookbooks and I've started getting excited about canning. I love to cook and Lindsay loves to bake, so we have a great thing going right now.
I hate to cook but I don't mind baking. Probably because I like the end result. I usually cook for the girls as Jeff is always working late, so often our meals are spaghetti (with no sauce), toasted cheese sandwiches, or chicken nuggets. Sometimes it's macaroni and cheese but only Annalise will eat it as Robyn thinks it's gross. I just can't win.
I have to give credit to your mom for helping me launch most of my cooking successes. I confess I still DO NOT understand your dislike for green beans; fresh, steamed with butter and salt, they are DIVINE!
Megan,
I have a card like the one on this post that says "I have a kitchen because it came with the house" I do miss cooking every now and then. Great blog.
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