onefixedstar | Forget reading; I've got cooking (Reply)

I've noticed that cooking is slowly creeping in as my major hobby. I don't even do that much of it, but it seems to be the thing that I think about the most when I'm not thinking about school. It amuses B to no end when we come across a dish in a magazine or show, and I decide we should try to make it ourselves. He doesn't enjoy following recipes, but he's very good at following any directions I give him, though I think I'm undermining his confidence in the kitchen. He made French toast on Sunday, and came in twice while I was in the shower to ask how for instructions. I need to do something about that. I also feel slightly guilty because before we starting going out, he was on a very simple, long-life diet featuring lots of plain steamed vegetables and nuts with minimal meat and carbs. Very nutritious, relatively easy to cook, and terribly boring (IMO). The food I make is tastier, but I don't think it's quite as healthy.

I didn't make any spectacular dishes this weekend. Friday night we ate out, Saturday we took advantage of the relatively nice weather to grill steak, and Sunday we made a basic stirfry and a rather odd version of Thai Spicy Eggplant that involved vinegar and no fish sauce. (I have a good Thai cookbook, but it was at home and I wasn't, so I searched online and that was the recipe I came up with. I was also somewhat hampered by the fact that B didn't want to buy either fish sauce or red pepper flakes.)

I think I need more cookbooks.