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I keep find myself thinking things like, "I'm getting married; I should start baking bread and cooking fancy meals and registering for specialty cookware at Williams Sonoma." Which is dumb. I kept thinking stuff like that when I first moved in with Mike, like, I'm gonna bake cookies all the time and we'll have awesome dinner parties and shit. And none of that happened back then, so why I keep thinking it should happen now is kind of silly.
I mean I do need to start cooking more often. I've been in need of some new recipes to expand my repertoire but I have very exacting standards for recipes - ideally it should only require one pan/pot to cook in (2 is acceptable if one of them is in service boiling pasta) and also it must be ready in 30-45 minutes and require almost no pre-planning to make (like marinating or rising or resting or whatever). And for Mike, it can't be a whole chicken breast or something on a plate. Must be pre-cut in bite sized pieces or he doesn't like it. I know. It's weird. But I kind of feel the same way at home, I mean, at a restaurant I'll cut up a steak and enjoy it but I hate making steak at home and I have a bad track record of trying to cook whole chicken breasts. They never get done all the way and then I dry them out in the microwave trying to get the pink out. My confidence gets worn down by trying out a string of new recipes and all of them being duds. Maybe not horrible, but not good enough to make again, that kind of thing.
Also: I wish my wedding was sooner so I could get my brain interesting in thinking about other things. I need a non-wedding related project, ideally one that makes money because apparently I pay Blue Cross 75 dollars a month so that I still have to pay 200 in office and lab fees to get a freaking routine checkup. I mean I guess I should be happy that I have good cholesterol and am therefore not at risk for a heart attack or whatever but man, it makes me never want to get a preventative checkup ever again if it's going to cost that much.
I mean I do need to start cooking more often. I've been in need of some new recipes to expand my repertoire but I have very exacting standards for recipes - ideally it should only require one pan/pot to cook in (2 is acceptable if one of them is in service boiling pasta) and also it must be ready in 30-45 minutes and require almost no pre-planning to make (like marinating or rising or resting or whatever). And for Mike, it can't be a whole chicken breast or something on a plate. Must be pre-cut in bite sized pieces or he doesn't like it. I know. It's weird. But I kind of feel the same way at home, I mean, at a restaurant I'll cut up a steak and enjoy it but I hate making steak at home and I have a bad track record of trying to cook whole chicken breasts. They never get done all the way and then I dry them out in the microwave trying to get the pink out. My confidence gets worn down by trying out a string of new recipes and all of them being duds. Maybe not horrible, but not good enough to make again, that kind of thing.
Also: I wish my wedding was sooner so I could get my brain interesting in thinking about other things. I need a non-wedding related project, ideally one that makes money because apparently I pay Blue Cross 75 dollars a month so that I still have to pay 200 in office and lab fees to get a freaking routine checkup. I mean I guess I should be happy that I have good cholesterol and am therefore not at risk for a heart attack or whatever but man, it makes me never want to get a preventative checkup ever again if it's going to cost that much.