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<blockquote data-quote="Amelie" data-source="post: 816880" data-attributes="member: 1287"><p>I love cooking, and i more or less cook something 'proper' everyday. I like knowing the kids have had something decent- it balances out all the crap that Jonno gives them! Cooking with the kids is great too at the right time (you can't care what it is going to end up like or care about the mess)- Jemima in partic likes to bake and we do it together a few times a week. Fred tends to like doing just bloke things- coming in and giving a stir, suggesting changes without tasting, saying it's ready when it clearly isn't, demanding home made chips with everything and that type of thing.</p><p></p><p>I also think making food is another way of showing affection. Making an effort shows that you want to please someone in the most basic yet pleasurable of ways. Every year on our wedding anniversary i make a massive effort to make a restaurant style menu for just the two of us. I even do a fish course and petit fours to go with coffee. Getting a babysitter ever is as good as impossible, so last year i even decorated the dining room and made it look like a french bistro- complete with checked napkins that i made out of old pj's lol and loads of flowers brought in from the garden. I know i am guilty of being a feeder- i cannot help it, i have even been called a Jewish mother before as keep the food coming.</p><p></p><p>I also like to make everything myself as it cost's far less then the alternative's. Give me a tenner and i can make a main, pudding for seven plus a bottle of wine. On Sunday we had a leg of pork. We sliced some off to save and cooked the rest for a roast. Last night with the raw slices i made escolopes, which i marinaded in a chilli/garlic/mustard olive oil thing and then flash fried in breadcrumbs. With it i did a celariac and potato gratin. Tonight with the left over cooked pork i am going to make some sort of curry dish just for us for supper. The joint of meat cost about six quid so it's really economical.</p><p></p><p>The only down side to cooking these days is that it is usually a frenzied, dangerous and stressful affair. The kids tend to love the adrenalin rush of standing in-between me and a large pan of boiling liquid and testing their luck. I also have to be dead on the ball and watch all the kids as they climb on the side and add random things out of the cupboard! I usually spend most time cooking screaming at the kids to back off. Meal times are equally bonkers. It is not unusual for us all to swap places, swap plates, use baby cutlery, or even have a few kids waking along the table. Jonno suffers the most here- they seem to all want to sit on/over him and just eat his stuff. It is really crazy.</p><p></p><p>It is only in this last year that i have ditched following recipe's and do my own thang- and i have come up with some ace stuff. I can't wait for the time when the kids are a little older and i can spend ages cooking for my family again at lesuire<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amelie, post: 816880, member: 1287"] I love cooking, and i more or less cook something 'proper' everyday. I like knowing the kids have had something decent- it balances out all the crap that Jonno gives them! Cooking with the kids is great too at the right time (you can't care what it is going to end up like or care about the mess)- Jemima in partic likes to bake and we do it together a few times a week. Fred tends to like doing just bloke things- coming in and giving a stir, suggesting changes without tasting, saying it's ready when it clearly isn't, demanding home made chips with everything and that type of thing. I also think making food is another way of showing affection. Making an effort shows that you want to please someone in the most basic yet pleasurable of ways. Every year on our wedding anniversary i make a massive effort to make a restaurant style menu for just the two of us. I even do a fish course and petit fours to go with coffee. Getting a babysitter ever is as good as impossible, so last year i even decorated the dining room and made it look like a french bistro- complete with checked napkins that i made out of old pj's lol and loads of flowers brought in from the garden. I know i am guilty of being a feeder- i cannot help it, i have even been called a Jewish mother before as keep the food coming. I also like to make everything myself as it cost's far less then the alternative's. Give me a tenner and i can make a main, pudding for seven plus a bottle of wine. On Sunday we had a leg of pork. We sliced some off to save and cooked the rest for a roast. Last night with the raw slices i made escolopes, which i marinaded in a chilli/garlic/mustard olive oil thing and then flash fried in breadcrumbs. With it i did a celariac and potato gratin. Tonight with the left over cooked pork i am going to make some sort of curry dish just for us for supper. The joint of meat cost about six quid so it's really economical. The only down side to cooking these days is that it is usually a frenzied, dangerous and stressful affair. The kids tend to love the adrenalin rush of standing in-between me and a large pan of boiling liquid and testing their luck. I also have to be dead on the ball and watch all the kids as they climb on the side and add random things out of the cupboard! I usually spend most time cooking screaming at the kids to back off. Meal times are equally bonkers. It is not unusual for us all to swap places, swap plates, use baby cutlery, or even have a few kids waking along the table. Jonno suffers the most here- they seem to all want to sit on/over him and just eat his stuff. It is really crazy. It is only in this last year that i have ditched following recipe's and do my own thang- and i have come up with some ace stuff. I can't wait for the time when the kids are a little older and i can spend ages cooking for my family again at lesuire:) [/QUOTE]
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