October Cooking Fun

After my great success with "cooking" Mango Lassis for my husband, I was on a roll. I next made some Portuguese Bean Soup (a favorite from when I lived in Hawaii), and some Chicken Noodle Soup (when my husband had a bad cold. The soup wasn't his fave, but it did make him feel better!). I even had a Pumpkin Day when my daughter visited, when we baked a whole pumpkin, scooped out the pulp, made Pumpkin Soup and Pumpkin Bread and Pumpkin Seeds, and ate it all for dinner. That was fun, but...here's the thing.

It was fun because I was doing it with my daughter. We could have been making bead bracelets or painting furniture together and it would have been fun. It wasn't fun because it was cooking. The cooking part was messy and hot and stressful and took hours and hours and then there was still an hour of cleaning up to do. We could laugh and chat about it and so that got me through it, but it took seven hours to bake the big squash, mash it up, and create food out of it. If I had been doing that by myself, I would have been lonely and feeling like, "THIS IS TAKING SEVEN HOURS TO MAKE, BUT THEY'LL EAT IT ALL IN FIFTEEN MINUTES!" Sure enough, we ate it all in 15.

I just don't like to cook, I realized. What I like, is to EAT.