Adventures in cooking

So, I'm trying to find things I enjoy and am good at, within the sphere of me having no life. So, um, essentially, I'm trying to become a respectable homemaker...because I can't find a job and spending 8 hours a day in AA would kill me faster than an 8 hr all you can drink booze fest. So, I'm taking a page from the writers of House, MD and I'm learning to cook.

I've always had men who can cook in my life. Whether dating, just sleeping with, or even just drinking buddies with...men who cook brilliantly have always been around and willing to cook for me. I've always just allowed myself to bask in the gloriousness of their skills, but I believe it is time (and as I live in the South there has been a bit of shaming me into it) I learn to cook.

My first "experiment" on the scheme of things, was nothing. An idiot can whip up some jiffy cornbread batter and put some jalapenos (I swear I'll find the n with a tilde or whatever its called later...I love those spicy green things so I'll use it a lot.) Regardless...in my attempt to mashup stuff in my pantry that is close to expiration I found some jiffy corn muffin mix and canned jalapenos. I gave it a shot e voila!

Magnificent jalapeno corn muffins. And they were delicious. So, now that I'm trying to cook amazing stuff that deserves eating (and trying to have a healthy attitude about eating period)...that's what's this is about. My attempts at cooking food that DESERVES to be eaten and savored and my attempts at adopting those attitudes towards the foods I eat.