I would hardly use the term domesticated to describe myself. Although, in the recent couple of years, I might go as far to use "competent" when it comes to our household. My husband and I got tired of our dozen or so "go to" recipes so I started looking up some different ones online. And so it began. Our life-long journey on the road to food discovery. Each new recipe was like a gift that only wet our 'appetite' for more. It started out innocently enough...one recipe every other week or so that I found and printed. And then the world of instructional videos taught me how to prepare anything I needed such as fennel bulb, avocados and rutubagas. (all which had been previously foreign to me). And the slow acquiring of cookbooks as we could afford them just kept the options unfolding in front of us.
Then we started a system that has been working pretty well so far. We started marking in the cookbooks which recipes we've tried, if we both liked it, loved it or neither. We also mark down anything we would change or substitute for next time. We gather together every weekend and begin planning out our meals for the week, making sure to have enough home cooked food so there are never nights where we have to eat out. I remember the feeling of being out of food and hitting the store with no set list and coming home with a lot of random food and snacks that never really materialized into well-rounded meals. Going to the grocery store with such an organized game plan ends up saving us time and money in the long run.
And then there is the simple art of it. It's being able to create tiny masterpieces each and every week that not only look beautiful but taste incredible. Our only requirement is that they are healthy dishes. It's such a satisfying experience to spend the quality time together, expanding our knowledge of new foods and recipes and experimenting together in the kitchen. It just makes it taste that much sweeter.
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