Joyful Baker vs. Hesitant Cook: Blame it on Chocolatechic

So the dogs wake me up at 4:00 am on this vacation morning (yeah, I wasn’t too happy!) and of course, I can’t go back to sleep once I’m up; so I come in to check email and my RSS blog feeds. Nearly every single day, I read Chocolatechic’s blog. She’s on my T2CHK message board, and I can relate to her writing style, sense of humor and her love of all things pink and chocolate! One area where her and I part ways: cooking. This woman cooks, her son cooks and some lovely looking recipes too! Me and cooking have a love hate relationship: I love to hate cooking. I truly am amazed at people who enjoy the task of cooking. I do cook, of course, my family has to eat and I get tired of having to run out every day for take-out (no, we don’t eat take-out every day, nor even every week - but oh I wish!). I can cook, and haven’t killed anyone yet with food poisoning or truly horrid fare; but ability does not always equal desire.

One thing my soon-to-be 8 year old daughter Emily always tells me, is that I make the best biscuits. Yes, I actually make mine from scratch and always have.  I know - you’re shocked, me too; opening a can is so much easier, but the few times I’ve done this, my children turn up their noses and won’t eat canned biscuits. Who knew I was raising food snobs!

So imagine my surprise, and admittedly, a bit of delight, when I read on Chocolatechic’s blog this morning that she’s joined in with the Tuesday’s With Dorie crowd to bake a new recipe each week from Baking From My Home To Yours by Dorie Greenspan; because I actually like love to bake. I don’t do so as often as I would perhaps like, as the foods I usually bake aren’t exactly those one needs to eat often (i.e. cakes, pies, cookies, etc..) . However, I could certainly do one recipe a week for the Tuesday’s With Dorie and so I ’skipped’ off to Amazon this morning and purchased my ‘nearly new’ copy of Baking From My Home To Yours .  So as soon as my book arrives, I can sign-up to join the others and bake a new recipe each week.

Now if I could just catch similar enthusiasm for cooking.  If you know of a site similar to Tuesdays With Dorie, only for meals (preferably from scratch/real-whole foods) then please, let me know the site link.  I hesitate to say I will ever love cooking, but hey - ya never know!  I think I will continue to struggle with this odd split in my personality:  love of baking vs. dislike of cooking.

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Written by Traci Knoppe ©: Aside from her roles as wife, mother of six, mother-in-law and grandmother, Traci is a Christian parenting instructor, Sunday school teacher, and business owner.