Cooking

If you know me, you know that I love food. I eat like a bear getting ready to hibernate. In fact, the colder the weather, the more bear-like I become in my eating habits.

Since starting college, that hunger has probably quadrupled. I snack in almost all of my classes...learning just makes me so completely hungry! Part of the reason I snack is to keep me awake. Because when it is cold and dark during an 8:30 am class, sleep is pretty much unavaiodable for me, even if I got plenty of sleep the night before. Like a said, I am pretty much a bear. It's amazing that I am not overweight.

Despite my ravenous hunger, I have very little ability to cook. In fact, I pretty much got last place in the gene pool when it comes to cooking. Most of my six sisters can cook pretty well. A couple of them are amazing cooks, and one of them even makes up her own healthy and delicous recipes. They seem to find some kind of satisfaction and joy in cooking. I just find joy in watching cooking shows. I mean, come on, I've messed up Easy Mac. Reading recipes confuses me.

My husband, Craig, does most of the cooking around our apartment. Lucky for me, he inherited a vast amount of great cooking genes from both sides of his family. His grandma on his mom's side makes some of the best foods I have ever had-such as the amazing quiche I devoured last time I visited. His dad and is brother are barbeque experts, not to mention great at making almost anything else. His mom makes perfect fajitas and roast. So Craig is very talented. I never liked oatmeal until he made some. Almost everything he makes is perfect and amazing.

However, because we can't afford to keep our freezer stocked with things like microwave burritos and tv dinners, I have to cook to survive every once and a while.

Here are some improvements I have made since getting married:

-Today, I made 2 lovely over-easy eggs without ruining them for the first time. These eggs have rendered me to tears before, but today they didn't burn, stick to the pan, or break.

-I now remember to put the pasta in the water AFTER the water reaches a boil.

-I made mashed potatoes from scratch and they were actually good.

-I also made steak a couple times. I hate using the stove though. I almost always burn myself when cooking over the stove...

Well, that's about it. In my defense, I can make amazing chocolate chip cookies, and my from-scratch pasta sauce is pretty good too.