Kitchen

[LuvTheMountains]

cyndog, I purchased 30 Taste of Home magazines on eBay for 10.00! Ive really enjoyed looking through them. My style of cooking!

[curlywhitedog]

I grew up in an Italian household where cooking was equated to love and for me, it still is. I cook because I enjoy doing it and because I want to provide my family with fresh and enjoyable foods. I like my own cooking better than most things I buy at the store anyway.

Having said that, I'll also say that I'm NOT a fanatic about it and I do buy, from an Italian Deli, things like their Marsala sauce which is a time saver and delicious at the same time. I'll fry up my own chicken cutlets and add my own rice and I'll have a 90% home cooked meal.

My DD who works full time and is a mom to 2 little ones doesn't have the luxury of standing over macaroni gravy stirring for three or four hours so she resorts to buying things that are prepared in advance like Rotisserie chicken from Costco and store prepared in advance mashed potatoes - food faster but not fast food.

Maria

[brewhaha]

Because the way to a man's heart is his stomach.

[depglass]

I like the type of cooking you can do ahead, chili, spaghetti, stroganoff. I don't like the type where everything has to be done at the last minute, except maybe something on the grill in the summer. I thought I would use the grill this winter but with all the snow, I've never bothered.

[SAVANAHGIRL]

I'm a good cook, but I HATE cooking. I do as little as possible. I also eat only to survive.

[CanningLady]

On 2/16/2014 house cat said:

Cooking and baking is pretty much the only thing that keeps me in the moment - completely zoned into what I'm doing and makes me forget all my worries and concerns. I'll cook for me, my family, my coworkers, my neighbors. It's not about eating the food, but the process. I love everything about being in the kitchen. The preparation, from start to finish is relaxing, even the cleanup. Presenting the food in creative and beautiful ways satisfies my creative urges. When people enjoy what I've cooked, that's just the icing on the cake… pun intended.

Why do you cook?

You pretty much summed all my cooking feelings right up. I love to be in my kitchen. My husband and family like it too. Lol. It's my total relaxation.

[Snicks1]

I cook because I enjoy cooking and enjoy having tasty food to eat. I will say that I am not a fan of cooking every day, sometimes I "burn out" on cooking, then I take a break for a day or two.

[donasmom]

I have been cooking three meals a day since I was 16 years old. My mother had a terminal illness and I gad to assume that job for her. By the time I got married and started my own home, cooking was natural for me.

Now as I get older, and have several health issues, I have been encouraged by my doctor to avoid all processed foods whenever possible and go organic, cage free, gluten free and grass fed for my food. I love the challenge of coming up with interesting, tasty meals. I also have quite a lot of cookbooks. I have found that the vintage cookbooks from the 40s and 50s have many great recipes in them.

As others have posted, it relaxing.

[millieshops]

I live alone, so buying meals could be a guilty pleasure, but no. I cook because all too often I'm disappointed with what I buy ready-to-eat.

[willdob3]

I cook because I will starve if I don't. lol... I don't actually enjoy cooking & don't bake.

I am going to be healthy & fit so I avoid processed and junk foods. I have to cook!