(Inspired by this post at Ruhlman gone meme via Raccoon and Lobster)
- I cook because I love to feed people.
- I cook to control what does and does not go into my food.
- I cook because I like to eat delicious, healthy food, but I’m cheap.
- I cook because I love the alchemy of transforming simple ingredients into something completely different.
- I cook to do justice to the produce available to me, especially from my CSA.
- I cook for the challenge and satisfaction of successfully making something new.
- I cook to meditate, as it requires concentration and focus.
- I cook because I am hungry.
Why do you cook?
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Most of your reasons sound good, plus:
*I like the challenge of improvising a recipe with what I have on hand
*I like the impressed look on Reid’s face when I’ve told him that the food he’s enjoying was improvised.
I feel the alchemy most when baking, and sometimes when cooking with raw meat or other ingredients that I can’t season “to taste” until they’re already cooked. Then I just have to take the leap of faith and trust the recipe!
Some of my favorite dinners have been made of “stuff that’s in the fridge and needs to be used up.”
Making caramel and custard-like foods like pudding or lemon curd is just so freaking cool when it magically becomes more than the sum of its parts.
If my food turned out looking like your food Stacy I’d love cooking more too. 😉
My reasons .. or biggest one .. is a little simple ..
Because I have two hungry kids, and one hungry man.
Good food (save for sushi, which I don’t make anyhow) is too far away.
I don’t like the idea of feeding my children chemicals and hormones, or wrecking the earth with them.
Maybe if you cooked more, your food would start looking better! How do you think mine got that way? ;p
I cook to challenge myself. To feed my son healthy, wholesome foods, and to teach him how to make good choices about what he eats. I cook to learn new techniques. I cook to get a taste of places that I cannot visit (or afford).
We don’t have kids yet, but we plan to, and we have a lot to think about when we do. I have a post in my head that will cover some of this later.
I cook whenever I cannot avoid having to do so in order to not be too hungry.
And chocolate chip cookies.
Of course, I read your blog for the writing, not the cooking.
And because you love me!
I cook because a person’s got to eat. Also, I like the taste of food I’ve made better than packaged or restaurant meals. It’s just that simple
But you could just eat fast food or microwave dinners. Technically. I’m not saying you should.
I cook to control what does and does not go into my food.
Oh hey, why didn’t I just say that? I cook because I’m crap at writing briefly and clearly. 😛
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