I know I sometimes say that I don’t like cooking. Which is not entirely correct. I’m actually very interested in food and cooking. I like to try out interesting food combinations and how creative you can be with some food. I like to try food from different countries and recently, I’m also highly interested in fusion cuisine. I love to watch cooking shows or tutorials to get inspiration, I like to browse cooking journals and blogs. I’d love to have all the cooking gadgets and apparatuses you can do the most complicated and the most awesome things with.
The thing only is that cooking doesn’t really relax me. Like, I can’t really enjoy it, because seeing that what you’ve prepared for 1 hour being devoured in like 10 minutes is... not really beneficial to me. I do like to eat what I cook, but especially when I have a lot to do, I see cooking rather as “eats a huge hole into my day” rather than “a relaxing addition to my day”.
I do like to prepare meals for others. If I’ve prepared the meals before. I can get a little self-conscious when someone watches me while experimenting or is going to taste my experiments. I’d rather do that all for myself first.
I’m also finding it difficult sometimes to cook with others and there’s really just a tiny handful of people where I’d go “I really like to cook with them”.