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Cooking Wishes Vs. Cooking Reality

Do you ever feel totally consumed by a desire to cook that you wish you could clear your schedule for a week and cook and bake your brains out?  I just saw the recipes and food photographs for the June/July issue of Taste of Homes Healthy Cooking and everything looks incredible!  I feel compelled to make almost every dish I saw.  I wish I had the time to whip them all up…and that I didn’t have such a disaster of a kitchen so cooking could be efficient and even more fun. So many wishes! Anyone have a genie in a bottle I could borrow?

Since I don’t have time to run to the grocery store tonight, or make a nice meal for that matter,I’ll be serving my empty refrigerator special, which just means we’re having breakfast for dinner.  Tonight’s menu features scrambled eggs (dressed up with roasted peppers from a jar, the tomato I need to use up and the last few crumbles of goat cheese we have) with a side of whole-wheat toast.  It actually might be pretty good, even if we are eating eggs at 6:00 at night.  In my book, eggs are great anytime of day.   
 

Published Apr 08 2008, 02:54 PM by snackalot | [Edit Post]
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Mirabelle____UK said:

Hello snackalot! to be honest, I like cooking, but after having cooked for large groups and families etc...for years and years (or so it seems!LOL) I do like cooking for smaller numbers now...and one meal at a time is quite enough for me..but I do know what you mean, I sometimes get this urge for somehting in particular, and have to be making it perfectly...like a nice roast dinner with all the trimmings...or somehting special when they all come home...it may be nothing very difficult, but it has to be just right...

and as for eggs..could never be without them! Could eat them in some for mor other every day, and mostly do!how about a perfect omlette, you cannot beat it..or rather, you have to beat the eggs!and as for breakfast for dinner, yes please! we sometimes go away or come home from our holidays, and a nice cooked breakfast is all we have fancied for ages..you have to have, bacon, (only English rashers they are nicer than the Amercian ones we think!) sausages (specialities form the butchers') nicely brown and spitting, fried eggs...mushrooms done in the bacon juices...half tomatoes grilled perhaps?  and piles of toast...Jeff needs lashings of either brown sauce or ketchup (both yuk for me!)a nice cup of tea, and you are in heaven! and yes, it is a heartattack on a plate, but so nice, and you can do that once in a while!

Mirabelle

April 9, 2008 3:28 AM
 

cjrecipes said:

I do take part of one day off and cook. I work full time in a hospital lab so have varied days and weekends off.

I'll get something started in the crock pot in the morning.

Then after shopping I'll make at least two other entrees. One is served fresh that evening and the other one and the crock pot dish are reheated for week night meals after work. My husband makes our salads and steams up a fresh vegetable for us. Leaves time for other after work activities for both of us.

May 12, 2008 6:21 AM
 

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I'm an Associate Editor for Taste of Home Healthy Cooking and Simple & Delicious magazines. I love food and trying new recipes, but have only been cooking since I got married 3 years ago.