meat

"she's a good cook." an epithet that i covet at this point in my cooking career. not even "great" or "excellent" (both used to describe my mom and mimi's cooking) i'll settle for a "good" rating at this point.

in anticipation of our upcoming marriage, i have spent some quality time lately with some food blogs. wow. there are quite a few people out there obsessed with food. no wonder that in the U.S. 39.2% of people over 15 are obese. but i think that they're all obese because they don't eat at home. i mean, how can you become obese when you eat a home cooked meal every night? well, after perusing some sights and investigating a cupcake recipe that used 2 packets of cream cheese and 6 (count 'em) sticks of butter, i'm revising my opinion.

i just looked at the recipes i copied and pasted into my little Word document entitled "Recipes." quite surprised by what i found. almost everything i liked involved baking of some sort or another. scones, cookies, muffins, biscuits, rolls, cakes, cupcakes- carb. city! i realized that in order to be a "good" cook, i would have to learn how to cook meat and vegetables. i don't even know where to go to find meat and vegetable recipes much less how to make them! but a "good" cook always has a well-balanced meal waiting for her husband when he comes home, so i'm determined to supplement "Recipes" (maybe I should have saved it as "Carbohydrates") with some main course dishes high in protein.

M is not going to know what hit him! let's hope he's as excited as i am about all this. at least i'll be able to put all the new pots and pans we're registering for to good work. and maybe, just maybe, justify getting the All Clad in the process!