I don't drink coffee on days I want to do a serious project. Brings on anxiety, self doubt and forgetfulness.
I understand and feel totally. My new cooking me is struggling to find motivation to cook and just cook, whereas my old cooking me would enthusiastically do so.
You are right! I will try that...I am trying to figure out a squash and peas soup...should be easy
Awww thanks a lot! I think you hit two points very correct,one slowing down, two not trying complex dishes or whatever...
I had a spell like that. I started cooking as a means of unwinding from a stressful job, then I found myself getting more stressed about the cooking than work! Over thinking about what to cook, trying adventurous dishes on a weeknight after a tiring day, feeling the need to impress anyone who comes round etc. The worst thing I then did was to start posting on social media. Instragram is the worst, where everything is picture perfect and you start thinking "my food needs to be like this" when actually it doesn't. I soon lost the motivation to cook.
Wow, thank you so much for sharing your experience...I am totally there with you, social media are dreadful, I am on neither, don't even have a facebook page, I think my goal is to just feed my kid and me healthy meals...and unavoidably, once in a while, try something new...like my boyfriend suggested and demonstrated simple zucchini pads, I was thrilled, all was done under 20 minutes...and the soup I did like an hour ago, was basically "forgotten" on the stove, it took 25 minutes, and it was fine, I also think talking about the lack of motivation helps, like this forum tonight, totally supportive and insightful, it happened to other people too...
The taste is the only thing that really matters.
Definitely, yes, I agree! Just for a laugh, before I got my new dishwasher, for a few weeks we would eat from paper plates, I hate doing dishes, it was really just on A plate, that was it. However, as you say, it did not make it less delicious... of course soups and stews still went into normal bowlsI seriously believe that beautiful plating for most people is entirely for the photograph. If you are running a restaurant, or if you really want to blow people away at a party, then plating is important. Otherwise, not so much.
We have some incredibly talented people here, and I have learned a few things about plating from watching them. But, this is all without judgment. This is the friendliest cooking forum by far, from my experience.
But, I don’t get caught up in thinking I have to make it look pretty. people who have seen recipes I posted will attest to that.
...I looove beuaitufl pictures of food, but I know it is not for real, andthe colours are never that intense, and then I read about food on set designers, like a whooole process of making it look like it, it just is very deappetizing to me, it is just too much fuss...yep, the taste is the make or break factor.
