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For any gal to answer:
- Do you love cooking?
I used to love it. Mow I'd say I like it, but I'd rather not have to, unless it's for a special person/occasion. Well, when you start living alone and you have to cook every day, it turns into a chore.
- Do you like cooking any more when you cook for others?
Yes, as answered above.
- Do(es) your significant other(s) enjoy cooking?
Does not apply currently
- Do you feel obligated to cook, and does this taint your experience?
When I was living with my ex, I felt like I was. He was pretty lazy to cok generally, though he knew how. As time passed he'd cook less and less. So imagine coming home after work at 9pm and he's waiting for you to cook his dinner. Yeah.
- If you do not cook, is it because you don't know how, or because it simply doesn't suit you?
I have been told I am an excellent cook and I do love to, when I have time and nothing to rush me, or I'm not exhausted.
- How does your role in the kitchen differ from that of your mother? Grandmother?
I don't have a role, I do what I want at the moment. I do remember that when cooking became a chore, it annoyed me. My mother never minded. She still loves to cook for others, more than for herself, even if it's a regular thing.
For those of you who cook regularly:
- Do you see it as your role as a woman to cook, or do you enjoy it "just because"?
It can become a chore if the person you're with isn't sharing the responsibilities equally. When I can, I will cook a perfect meal, just for me, just because.
- Are you frequently inclined to depend upon frozen meals, or do you prefer to build a meal up from scratch?
When I have time, I prefer scratch. Since I rarely have time, frozen is currently essential.
- Did your mother prepare your meals when you were a child?
Every single one. My father wouldn't cook, though I don't know if he knew how.
- How much do you try to incorporate Organic or otherwise healthful products into your meals?
I raise my eyebrow at organic. My mother is a scientist and works in chemistry and she's told me a few things about what organic can mean. Otherwise, I try to choose the freshest and highest quality products when I can.
- Do you take time to plan balanced meals in advance?
I dd 6 months ago, but now I haven't got the tiem again. It comes and goes in phases.
- Does it thrill you just as much to shop and prepare for the meals as it does to eat them?
Yes, I love food-shopping and can spend hours in a supermarket browsing shelves.
- Do you appreciate a helpful hand in the kitchen, or do you consider meal-making your "alone time"?
I like a helping hand, but I am pretty dominant and like things to be done how I want them.
- Do you have a specific kitchen design that lends itself to your style of cooking or entertaining?
My current kitchen is a good size but I lack enough counter space, which annoys me often. I still love my kitchen and spend a good amount of time there quite happily. Most people who come to my house will also spend time in the kitchen with me until I shoo them into the living room.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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