Good eats
Edited to add: My sister told me today that she read this post and that the picture of my wonton soup looked pretty good. It just dawned on me that everyone must have thought the same thing. Uh oh, blogging faux pas #1, not giving credit where credit is due. The picture of the wonton soup was taken from here. Thanks everyone for “enjoying” our food with us.
Do you “live to eat” or “eat to live”?
Being “the chef” in the family, my motto would be I “live to eat”.
My only “culinary training” was from observing my Mom (and sometimes my Dad) cooked for us while we were still living under their roof. I know, they spoiled us like that then but even now on Sunday dinners as well.
My Mom is a great cook. She’s one of those natural cooks who don’t need to use recipes, or if she does…all she needs is to glance at it once and she can perfect a delicious dish or if she tasted a dish at a restaurant, she can pretty much figure out what goes into that dish and prepares it for us. We love being her guinea pigs. But of course, we have the final vote if that dish would be made again. I know, we’re badass critics like that.
Being married for nine years, my poor hubbie had to consume some interesting concoctions, shall we say. I actually set off the smoke detectors, six years ago, while attempting to make the roux for making gumbo. Needless to say, the garbage disposal didn’t like the burnt taste that night, and I’ll leave the gumbo making to the real chefs at restaurants.
Well, I’m ecstatic to say that after nine years, I’ve inherited my Mom’s special trait (to my hubbie’s relief), cooking by taste instead of using recipes. I think it has something to do with me and reading directions. I don’t do too well in following instructions. You can tell me what ingredients are required and I’ll let my taste buds do the cooking. I’ve dabbled in all different cuisines, but my specialty is mostly Vietnamese food, and soups. We love soups, noodle soup, rice soup, chicken soup, you name it even if it’s 90 degrees outside, you can find us eating this.
Speaking of soup, here’s what we had tonight made from scratch, by moi, of course. And to quote my hubbie after two bowlfuls of wonton noodle soup, “this is better than Chinatown!” And that’s no easy feat folks, ahem. *grinning with pride*
If you’re one of those meat & potatoes kind of folks, all I can say is “try it Mikey, you might like it!” I promise there’s no monkey brains or bull testicles in the soup above, although the wonton is wrapped in a form of balls, but yummy balls they are. Alright, get your mind out of the gutter please.
How about you? Are you the main chef in the family? If so, what are your favorite dishes? And what’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever tasted?
Edited to add: My sister told me today that she read this post and that the picture of my wonton soup looked pretty good. It just dawned on me that everyone must have thought the same thing. Uh oh, blogging faux pas #1, not giving credit where credit is due. The picture of the wonton soup was taken from here. Thanks everyone for “enjoying” our food with us.
Do you “live to eat” or “eat to live”?
Being “the chef” in the family, my motto would be I “live to eat”.
My only “culinary training” was from observing my Mom (and sometimes my Dad) cooked for us while we were still living under their roof. I know, they spoiled us like that then but even now on Sunday dinners as well.
My Mom is a great cook. She’s one of those natural cooks who don’t need to use recipes, or if she does…all she needs is to glance at it once and she can perfect a delicious dish or if she tasted a dish at a restaurant, she can pretty much figure out what goes into that dish and prepares it for us. We love being her guinea pigs. But of course, we have the final vote if that dish would be made again. I know, we’re badass critics like that.
Being married for nine years, my poor hubbie had to consume some interesting concoctions, shall we say. I actually set off the smoke detectors, six years ago, while attempting to make the roux for making gumbo. Needless to say, the garbage disposal didn’t like the burnt taste that night, and I’ll leave the gumbo making to the real chefs at restaurants.
Well, I’m ecstatic to say that after nine years, I’ve inherited my Mom’s special trait (to my hubbie’s relief), cooking by taste instead of using recipes. I think it has something to do with me and reading directions. I don’t do too well in following instructions. You can tell me what ingredients are required and I’ll let my taste buds do the cooking. I’ve dabbled in all different cuisines, but my specialty is mostly Vietnamese food, and soups. We love soups, noodle soup, rice soup, chicken soup, you name it even if it’s 90 degrees outside, you can find us eating this.
Speaking of soup, here’s what we had tonight made from scratch, by moi, of course. And to quote my hubbie after two bowlfuls of wonton noodle soup, “this is better than Chinatown!” And that’s no easy feat folks, ahem. *grinning with pride*
If you’re one of those meat & potatoes kind of folks, all I can say is “try it Mikey, you might like it!” I promise there’s no monkey brains or bull testicles in the soup above, although the wonton is wrapped in a form of balls, but yummy balls they are. Alright, get your mind out of the gutter please.
How about you? Are you the main chef in the family? If so, what are your favorite dishes? And what’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever tasted?
It looks delicious! I would LIKE to live to eat, but I don’t. I cram whatever is available into my mouth. (And I now have the butt to prove it!)
I’d like to make a change in this arena, though. I enjoy cooking and when I make a nice meal (I do this decently about 3 nights per week), I feel very happy I did.
But if I could choose to allocate more time toward food preparation and enjoyment, I would.
Maybe I will, in fact.
But I’ll be using a cookbook;)
That looks really yummy.
We’re trying to cook more and eat less junk. We have to bee good influences for the kiddo, right?
That looks absolutely delicious! I’m coming over for dinner. When’s good for you?
I am not a natural cook. I do well if I follow recipes, but there has been more than one occasion where a deviation from the directions led to a phone call to the pizza guy.
Actually, my husband is an awesome cook. Much more instinctive, as you’ve described. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have much time to cook anymore, but when he does it is a special treat!
THat looks fabulous! I hadn’t been craving Chinese until now, thanks.
My husband does not cook at all. He can’t even make instant saimin! I’m not kidding. I think it’s a secret ploy to get me to do all the cooking! The won ton soup looks yummy!
That looks wonderful! Mr. Belle and I share the cooking, but neither of us is all that great on a daily basis. I CAN cook, and it is good when I set my mind to it, but I usually just thow something together.
I’m not the main chef since my lil brother is studying to be one. My grandpa is one and so is my uncle. They’re top level chef or sous chef … I think that’s what you call them.
But I can cook a mean one when necessary or when I feel like it.
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That looks awesome!
Me? I can’t even boil water…sigh.
Holy cow, you’re making me hungry just looking at it. Of course it is five minutes before my lunchbreak - but that has nothing to do with it!
OMG. That looks so good. I am going to have to fly to your city soon and break the noodle with you and yours!!
I am a good cook. I think about food all the time, read cooking magazines, cookbooks, recipes - then I mess with them and make them my own.
I won a chili contest this weekend! My vegetarian chili beat out 2 other veg chilis and 8 meat chilis to take the prize! Woo hoo.
If it weren’t for my wife I’d live on PB&J and Hamburger Helper.
Sunday a.m. we had home made biscuits & sausage gravey. Yum.
I had 5 biscuits (10 halves) smothered with scrambled eggs and gravey. (heh, I weigh 135 lbs btw)
It sure will be nice when they perfect that scratch-n-smell script.
Oooohhh!!! I love wonton soup!! I could eat that anytime too!
This pregnancy I’ve been craving a lot of Chinese food which my doc isn’t happy with becuase of sodium but pfffft to him!!
My hubby is the main cook although I must say, I can cook too. I can’t, however, bake anything!
I wish I could smell your soup through the computer screen. It looks dilish!!!
i live to eat.
but i wish i ate to live. i’d be much skinnier
Kailani~My hubbie’s idea of a good meal is mac & cheese from the box, since that’s all he can cook. But he’s been dabbing in making us breakfast. He wants to start with breakfast and make his way to lunch and dinner.
Suebob~I love chili but I don’t like beans, so I’m really eating hamburger helper, aren’t I? Congrats on winning the chili contest, I’d love to taste your concoction though.
Matt~Yummy!! Homemade biscuits?! I love biscuits! My idea of biscuit is from KFC, “finger licking good!” I can eat 5 biscuits too but I shouldn’t since I, ahem, weigh more than you. How sad!
Oh my that looks yummy. I’m salivating over here. I don’t cook much in my house. My mom wasn’t much of a cook and she raised her daughters the same way. So I married a man who loves to cook (and he’s damn good at it) and my sister married a chef and now they own a restaurant. Yep, my mama didn’t raise no dummies!
My hubby and I both cook, and both love to experiment to make new dishes…which, for the most part, actually turn out pretty tasty.
Sometimes that’s a bad thing…when we really think supper tastes good, we tend to overeat. Maybe I should just make less…
Man, that looks delicious. And I’m not a wonton soup lover at all… I would gobble that down in a second. Yummy!
The only bad thing about cooking by taste instead of by recipies is that you can’t pass on the recipies to your friends. Like me. I’d love that wonton soup recipe, for instance.
I’m the cook for us. After cooking ALL of Dave’s meals for the first year of our marriage I spent a summer teaching him how to make his own eggs/omelets for breakfast. And then I showed him how to pack a lunch. So now I only do dinners. Good thing he’s a fast learner though.
When I got pregnant and puked at the idea of ANY food, we both lost weight! And he really stepped up with making me all sorts of food that I promptly vomited. (Fun times!)
My best friend growing up was Korean. And the other was French. So I grew up eating weird things all the time: octopus, jellyfish, fish heads. If I think about it now, though, I would have to say the strangest foods I ate were raw: uncooked brownie mix, raw pizza dough. What was I thinking???
Oh my goodness……that looks WONDERFUL!!!
I cook to survive. I do NOT like to cook. I don’t like anything about it. The shopping, the preparation, the actual cooking, and then the cleaning up. It just takes too long.
I envy people like you who enjoy it! What time is dinner? I’m hungry now that I looked at your picture.
Yep, I’m the chef in this house, too. I also cook mostly by taste, I’ve never thought about the whole reading directions thing, lol! Your soup looks so delicious, I must make some tonight, ever thought about giving us some recipes? or a list of ingredients
I would LOVE to make some Vietnamese soup! We used to go have pho all the time in San Diego, nothing better for a hangover!
The weirdest thing I’ve eaten is fried grasshoppers in Laos.
That looks SO yummy!
I, too, am the main chef in our house. I feel a bit inadequate when comparing myself to my own mother. Growing up, we had dinner on the table every.single.night and ate together as a family.
Fast forward 20+ years, and I am a lucky girl if I can get dinner together twice a week. Oi. The pressure!
I am the one and only cook in our family (unless something is being grilled), and I hate, hate, HATE to cook. I am a follow-the-recipe-to-the-”T” kind of girl. I would give anything to have a cook!
So much for my posting your picture to Europe and Asia…
So I have never used the phrase ‘we need to chew and screw’ however wife.imp wants to go out on Saturday. I wonder what the waitperson will say to this? I might have to wait until they are approaching the table with the food…
Do you know I totally thought you cooked that and took the picture!
That looks so yummy. I’m the cook here, but not very creative. I use old standbys or once in a while use my MIL Lionesses cookbook, a lot of homestyle meals that my husband and kids like. Favorite dish is probably shrimp scampi, that’s what I usually order at restaurants. Weirdest thing I ever ate was probably cow brains. It was mixed with scrambled eggs, tasted pretty good. Also, cow’s tongue. Very tender, pretty good as a Mexican dish.
I can’t cook well. I simply can’t. My hub’s the main chef in our house, and it’s best that way.
Although if I could learn to make wonton soup like that, I’d be thrilled to TRY!!
Wow -That looks really GOOD! I want some…..
YUMMY. I LOVE won ton soup. That looks soooo very good. Yummmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyy.
I hate, despise and loathe cooking. I love to eat, just hate to cook. Chad is the chef in our family and I am very very glad. He cooks and I clean up. I am not very domestic and hate all things housewifey. *sigh* Poor Chad. I DO the laundry and mop and all that stuff however. I really do. And I am a mean decorator. I get compliments on our house all the time. I am not just very domestic, does that make sense????
Alright, how did we start talking about me and all my little folibles and stop talking about your yummy soup? Hmmmm????
Seriously, why admit to the picture not being yours? You are so honest…
I would have just chalked it up to my little mistake and do better next time!!
BTW: I photoshop EVERY SINGLE PICTURE I post. Off come wrinkles, pimples, marks, red eye, shine, pores, you name it. Do you think I should declare this? I happen to think I’m in GREAT company!!