Veg*n Mamas
Last night I made:
Dipping tofu (w/sauce ala Etta Candy's sorta recipe)
Buckwheat noodles
Sauteed spinach
Broccoli and mushroom stir-fry
Tonight:
Homemade pizza (Click for recipes for the dough, sauce, and some tips from HM)
Dessert:
Beatty's Chocolate Cake w/Frosting (ala oldladygrady's Flickr yummy-pic! An easy and very tasty recipe).
Today's topic: What is your dirty secret?
I had a friend who I discovered neither enjoyed cooking nor excelled at it; yet it was her "job" in the home (both she and her partner worked) and she expressed a sort of oppressive and constant frustration over this. Her problem seemed to be she was expected to cook and cook well - both by her FOO and her partner. This resulted in her creating the same menus per day of the week. At first, in my jerky way, I pitied a family that had to eat the same thing over and over. Then I realized that perhaps they liked it that way, and it certainly sounded easier. I also thought it was too damn bad someone could be raised thinking they "should" know how to cook well when they honestly neither had the interest nor the aptitude (the latter of course could be built provided the former was in place). I also thought it was too bad she couldn't just NOT give a shit and order out or tell her husband to learn to cook. She definitely was in some sort of cooking trap and rather than finding joy in cooking, found it a deflating chore.
"Macaroni - let me finish! - salad."
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You should have no reason to feel like you are not doing enough, lady -- you sew your family's clothes, make them great vegetarian meals from scratch, and cart two children around in a bike trailer all day! You do more in a day than I do in like 2 weeks. Dude, you should come over here and check out the dust bunnies and the dishes in the sink -- you would NEVER, EVER again feel lazy after a visit to the house of sloth.
Didn't mean to get all serious on you but I just want to let you know that you rock and that there are some of us out here who are in awe of all you do.
we have dog fur tumbleweeds here. Kelly is a super mama
You're right. I am not a bottomless well.
It isn't like I think I should work harder. It's that I wish I could either A. work harder or B. relax and be OK with "good enough". I have a hard time knowing when to let myself off the hook sometimes.
Anyway, thanks for the affirmations although I didn't want to be "talked out of" my dirty secret! 
"Macaroni - let me finish! - salad."
I always felt bad for him too but he liked it. Lol he wishes I were a little more like that.
I guess I am cocky because I feel no shame about any of my habits, which include strong arming Dave into doing most of the cleanup. Okay one thing, if something comes out too shitty~too burnt, dry whatever I have been know to chuck it at the wall.
I hate to cook. I'm very good at it but i can't stand the work that goes into it, the cleaning afterwards and no one realizing how much work went into it. It makes me feel like i should just be buying the Annies boxed mac n cheese every other night but then, damn, i'd have a pot to clean!
My dirty secret. I'm a good cook/baker but i don't like it or enjoy it. Even while i'm eating. Well, nevermind. I do like to eat....
not sure how dirty this is but cooking is very chaotic with me -- it freaks people out to watch me in action.
examples:
1. I cut things in my hand and toward my hand (like I will hold an apple and cut toward my hand)
2. I am generally a spaz, always dropping things, spilling things, boiling over pots, etc
3. on top of 2, I am always trying to save time by multitasking and it gets even more hectic
4. I believe in the alchemy of weird and spontaneous combinations of ingredients -- so people will come in and get really confused by the honey, coconut milk, and cayenne pepper on the counter when I am just making spaghetti sauce (bwoohahahaha) -- but then it turns out good.
5. If I am trying to follow a recipe, I always end up forgetting a major step or ingredient, not sure why -- so I always try out recipes on my husband first before preparing them for company (I usually remember the second time around).
The dirtiest secret of all is that the best food ever comes from forgetting and improvising. How like life.
I could have written this list, word for word.
My dirty little secret is that christina06 and I are long lost culinary twins.
cilantro on the floor, sesame seeds in the grout, molasses on the counter and a little yogurt to balance things out? Oh crap, what's in the oven?
geez, I'm glad to know I'm not the only freak.
I am also in the I hate doing dishes crew.
However, I am often the queen of short cuts. Here's my example: Last nite I made dinner, Chicken and red and yellow peppers with pasta. But I cheated, I sauteed the chicken and peppers, then made a box mix of white shells and cheese, but added extra water, and oregano and Half and Half, my hubby thinks I make this sauce from scratch,lol but I really just thin out the cheese sauce from the box mix. This is sometimes the case with my Homemade food, its a little sneaky. But my family does not know.
"Have a safe lunch, use a condiment."
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I dislike doing dishes and cleaning out the fridge, yet am too lazy to do it every time I want it done. This results in me asking my husband to do these things from time to time (I would say the workload on this is split about 60 / 40, me doing the lion's share).
Sometimes I wish I was just AWESOME and cooked these great meals AND kept my kitchen neat as a pin, instead of asking for my husband to clean to my standards. I mean sure, the fridge has to be cleaned out and dishes have to be done. But if I'm feeling a niggling irritation that the kitchen floor isn't clean then *I* should clean it, eh?
I think sometimes I work too hard and have too high of standards; this means I become over-analytical and burn out (mentally) by the end of the day. Not the worst thing in the world but not exactly where I want to be, either.
"Macaroni - let me finish! - salad."