Cooking... not my thing .... yet

So I suck at cooking.

Yes, you may think I am exaggerating.  

I wish

.

I was a cook in a nursing home in college resulting in 12 dozen burnt eggs! Repeated this skill in my late 20s ruining a Teflon pot while making boiled eggs.  

Yup, I have burnt boiled eggs twice.

So when I got married, obviously my husband cooked.  He didn't know that chili comes from a can and ramen takes 2 minutes until met me.   My husband has cooked for years until ....

his masters and hockey.

So for the family to eat, I have taken over responsibility to '

cook

'.   After months (maybe a year now that I think about it), we have eaten strange concoctions, frozen everything and anything and lots of sandwiches.

So now that I have committed to this '

Fed and Fit

' - I thought I should practice before we start Sunday.  I have '

riced

' cauliflower only to learn my husband hates cauliflower that all the times we have ever eaten it, he was being nice.   Ricing is very messy. [Tidbit: A friend mentioned that I can buy riced cauliflower at the store].

I have tried the ginger lemonade - well I didn't have lemons so I did limes.  My taste buds are so used to sweet drinks that the coughing fit was so impressive my family thought I was dying momentarily.

Crock pots are my best friend as they do the '

standing and watching

' the food - I tried the beef and squash soup which was good.  I realized that cutting squash is not as easy as it appears and don't overcook (my specialty).

Here is why I do not enjoy cooking -

1.     It takes too long.

2.     I get side tracked.

3.     Nothing cooks in 2 minutes (unless it's ramen noodles).

4.     I tend to 'substitute' things without having real cooking knowledge - sometimes killing the                   edibility of the dish.

5.     Cooking creates dishes (I have loved paper plates since I was a child - just ask my Dad).

But I am not discouraged. 

I will follow directions and create great healthy meals for my peeps.  I pray my peeps eat the dishes (it bums me out when they do not even try it).   I will succeed.