So are you satisfied with your cooking skills and resultant eating?

[Ralphie ★]

I am not.  I really need to improve.  It is interesting that a previously mountainous cow-orker retired at aboot 60, and when we saw him again a year or so later he was rail thin. He attributed it to less stress and the time to cook and eat correctly.  That really opened my eyes, because I am him a year ago - too heavy and a shitty cook.  We were dopplegangers in some ways, mainly we were both dissatisfied with the way work was going, both being old school.  Yet he was able to retire relatively young and rich, which would have been me had I never gotten married.  But I don;t think I would have been good as a lifelong single.

Anyhoo, getting back to the OT, I know I have potential because I have great taste and low expectations ( ), and once in a blue moon will knock my own socks off with a great dish, like today's pepper and eggs, a simple but nice one I learned from my mother who does very well at cooking.  I know I can do it.   Wish me luck.

 

[AirwickWithCheese]

Very much so!  You ARE the Cafe, Mr. Mooseworth.  

[donkpow]

Good luck. 

[petitepedal ★]

Watch those pbs cooking shows 

[Road Runner]

My latest cooking efforts.  

[Ralphie ★]

2 minutes ago, donkpow said:

Good luck. 

Just aboot all tv chefs are fat except for Giada (no way she eats her own food beyond a tasting!) and Bobby Flay and Gordon Ramsay.  I want to be the "healthy" chef.

That said, their used to be a chain around here in the 80s named D'Lites I think, that went into many old fast food locations and claimed to have healthy food.  They lasted nary a year or two.

 

 

[petitepedal ★]

Jacques is not fat...there are several that cook healthy..

[Wilbur ★]

Some of the worst food for you is the fattiest crap the French cook.  It is delightful to eat though and as a nation, the French are thin.  Me thinks it is the portions folks!  

[Wilbur ★]

Yes, I am happy enough with my skills in the kitchen.  I am not ruling out more cooking classes in the future though.  

[Zephyr]

I love cooking and for the most part are happy with the results.  I don't always eat well, but that is more a reflection on my time and energy as opposed to skills

[shootingstar]

I'm fine re my cooking skills in healthiness and weight results.  Any problems would be portion control and eating too much of certain unhealthy foods at restaurants/cafes.  Same for him...he just needs to cut out certain cafe foods.  So healthy home cooking is not a problem for us since between the 2 of us, we cook up creative, healthy and tasty stuff.

[Ralphie ★]

4 minutes ago, shootingstar said:

Any problems would be portion control and eating too much of certain unhealthy foods at restaurants/cafes.

That is the problem - lack of good cooking causes too many restaurant meals which are horrid for you and the budget!

One of the biggest problems for me is balancing what I like with what the Mrs. likes, which is snot easy since she is a supertaster and I am a nontaster, and she prefers meat-based meals a lot more than I do.  I am a big fan of meat as a condiment meals. 

[late]

9 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

Some of the worst food for you is the fattiest crap the French cook.  It is delightful to eat though and as a nation, the French are thin.  Me thinks it is the portions folks!  

They have a small breakfast, and often skip lunch. They also walk more than we do.

When I lived in Vienna, breakfast was tea and a croissant. I always had a lunch, but most places served small lunches (but not the Greek buffet). I did more walking than usual just going to class. I'm not sure how much weight I lost during the semester, but when I came home, I was 50 freaking pounds lighter.

My Mom took one look at me and started serving me dinner on two plates. One was just for the steak.

[Ralphie ★]

23 minutes ago, petitepedal said:

Watch those pbs cooking shows 

Diners Drive Ins and Dives is a very bad influence. :D

 

[Wilbur ★]

13 minutes ago, Angelic Zephyr said:

I love cooking and for the most part are happy with the results.  I don't always eat well, but that is more a reflection on my time and energy as opposed to skills

But you are angelic so there is that..  

[Ralphie ★]

1 minute ago, Wilbur said:

But you are angelic so there is that..  

I missed the bell when Zephyr got his wings. :D

 

[Wilbur ★]

1 minute ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

I missed the bell when Zephyr got his wings.

 

I think he got them in Panama but we won't talk about that little affair. 

[Dottleshead ★]

Horrible at number 1 and brilliant at number 2. My life's metaphor.

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

5 hours ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

lack of good cooking causes too many restaurant meals

Move here, where most restaurants suck. It will save you money and your opinion of your own cooking will go up exponentially, even if you don’t get any better.

[petitepedal ★]

6 hours ago, Angelic Zephyr said:

I don't always eat well, but that is more a reflection on my time and energy as opposed to skills

Absolutely...when I am sick I probably eat the worst...No energy to plan or cook after working...My doc and I discussed this more than once..but unless I have some healthy stuff pre cooked (and I usually have a meal or two)...Picking up a frozen meal, pizza or fast food on my way home from work..beats trying to figure out cooking...  But...the rest of the time...I cook.

[Further]

I can cook good stuff, but I'm not consistent.

I don't really understand the acid / sweet / bitter /.... balance thing. 

Sometimes I hit it, sometimes I crash & burn 

[MickinMD ★]

I'm pleased with my cooking skills, but I'm just getting back to employing them a lot after hip and shoulder problems.

I'm not perfectly satisfied with how healthy I eat, but my diet is reasonably close to the Mediterranean Diet and the old, reasonable National Institutes of Health recommendations before they decided to make them more complicated than 90% of the population can easily follow.

[ChrisL]

My job changes have greatly helped me. Travel/eating on the road did me in. I can cook and eat healthy meals when I do but spending 30 hours a week driving all over SoCal allowed for bad eating habits.

My new job has similar work hours as my last job so I should be able to keep it going.