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Cooking school dropout
Ok ladies, I am here to admit that I am a cooking failure. I have tried over and over again to cook and have endlessly failed. I even bought cookbooks that had 5 or less ingredients and 1 pot recipes. Yep, I failed at those too. I think DH and I are doomed to a life of take out, frozen dinners, and grilled cheese (which I often burn).
Tonight I tried to make stir fry. How hard is it to throw things in a pan and toss? Yep, it was a horrible mess. Anyone else want to fess up that they are a cooking failure...or a failure at something else? Or am I alone to my life of incompetence in this area?
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Re: Cooking school dropout
I will admit that one of my failures is I am a horrible house keeper. I hate doing the dishes and folding laundry with every ounce of my being. I love when the house is clean and it drives me bonkers to go to bed with dishes in the sink. But I have to convince myself to keep going then whole time I'm cleaning.
This is me exactly. Our apartment is so dirty, but with my day-to-day schedule, I have no time to clean. DH has been a sweetheart and has taken the initiative to help me out more. I decided one day last week that instead of devoting an entire afternoon to cleaning, I would take it one room a day. That makes it a lot less stressful.
I'd like to think I'm a good cook, but not all of my meals are good. I enjoy making potato soup and DH loves my rice tacos. Just remember that nobody is inherently a good cook; I don't care what anyone else says. It's something you gotta work at!
I'm also feeling like a complete failure with my school work. I originally dropped out of my art program because I saw the difficulty DH getting a job with his major. I switched to a business degree and I hate it. I'm almost done, but I'm failing a few classes because I just suck at finance. DH and I have really had to talk about the possibility of me having to quit school if I have to retake classes that I failed because we don't have the money to pay for school.
Wow. That was such a loaded question, you didn't know!
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Yikes! Sounds like something my DH would do. He was feeding my Bearded Dragon one day and set the heat lamp on my pillow while it was on and set it on fire. I was using a small melamine plate as a spoon rest on my stove, one day while DH was boiling water he must have moved the plate too close to the burner and caught that on fire too.
I bet you're great at other things domestic (and not!) so what if you can't cook right now. It doesn't mean you never will. Why don't you see if your DH has the talent for that?? ;-)
I'm pretty domestic actually, but I'm bad a fun stuff like bowling, mini golf, and team sports. I bet you'd beat me at those things! Most people (even kids) could!
Just remember that it's whatever works for you and your DH's lifestyle. There are pleeeennnty of couples out there who eat take out, dine out, or even have a chef make them meals a couple times a week because that's what works for them rather than cook for themselves.
And just an idea, why don't you abandon the cookbooks and try to play around with cooking yourself? That's how I learned, and I'm no gourmet, but I can definitely make almost everything I do from scratch, and just based on consistency I know when something is right. You just have to keep tasting (fun part) as you go. And trust me, every now and then, I totally bomb with whatever I'm cooking. It happens.
Besides, who says you can't have salad, soup, and sandwiches for dinner?? I KNOW you can make that. :-)
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Ditto to this. It's hard to screw up something in a slow cooker.