Wednesday, October 03, 2012

This blog is not dead. It's just in a coma.

I missed my seven year blogiversary last month. Seven years of trying new recipes and I still can't cook! I knew I was not a 'natural' when it comes to cooking but I thought that with a lot of practice that I would see more successes than failures. And I was, when I was cooking regularly, but it seems that it didn't take long for me to lose whatever skills I had picked up these past seven years. Lately I feel like I'm a worse cook than when I started!

I have left ingredients behind, I have made the wrong call and added the 'wrong' ingredient (a few white chocolate chips were all it took to turn my son's nose away from one batch of chocolate chip brownies), I've overcooked and undercooked things. Even recipes I've made several times before are not turning out right (Dan's disaster of a birthday cake!) I can't even make a salad for myself that hits the mark. I can't make anything that doesn't come out of a box or package that my kids will eat, and sometimes I can't even get the packaged stuff right.

So it's been hard to revive my desire to blog. Blogging certainly hasn't been replaced with anything - I still have the time to do it (I have more time than ever to do it). I was still buying cookbooks until recently when I decided that madness has to stop, at least until I start using them again. Will that happen? I honestly don't know.

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, CBJ, don't be so hard on yourself. I think we've all been there. Lord, I've been cooking for over 48 years and I'm really disappointed with some of my dishes. It's so good to hear from you.

Jan

Anonymous said...

I'm glad you're okay! I hate when I get in slumps like that. And what is up with kids who no longer eat all our favorites?!? Maybe look back thru the archives and make some of your successes again to rekindle your interest. You have alot of great recipes here!
Cindy

Bob said...

Glad to hear that you're still "here". Take another look at what you've done and then "turn left".
Best
Bob

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Wanda said...

It's so good to read you again, CbJ. And I agree with what everyone said. I've been cooking for 40-something years and still am not a very good cook. When I first got married, I asked Jan for a baked potato recipe and didn't know why everyone thought that was so hilarious. Remember that, Jan?
I really enjoy your blog, CbJ. You just have a way of 'talking' that makes things interesting.

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Hi! I LOVED reading your blog - unfortunately I was very late to the party (and I don't know if you'll ever see this :( ) but anyway I read it backwards over the last few months and it was so fun to read. I am so impressed with what you accomplished. I tend to be hard on myself too, but seriously, you could have easily spent the rest of your life saying that you "should" cook from your cookbooks more and you "should" blog or what have you - and you went for it. You did it, and now it's done and it's time for you to move on, but mission accomplished! As far as the feeling that you're cooking is worse than when you started, I highly doubt that. When you first started you said that you rarely followed a recipe, and I'm sure that you still wing things whenever you need to. Hopefully you found a lot of great "keeper" recipes. Forgetting ingredients, making the wrong call on something in a recipe, all of that is completely normal. It happens to every single person who cooks, it just comes with the territory, but anyways I mostly just wanted to say that I'm really impressed that you went with this idea and did it for so long. You are too hard on yourself sometimes than you need to be (i.e., every time I'd see a great looking decorated cake and think how nice it looked, then I'd read in your post that it didn't look very good, or thinking that people didn't love your blog when they hadn't commented), or even this post. It's because you've come so far that you now see certain imperfections more glaringly. But the bar has been majorly raised for you, that's all! And you have TWO little kids to cook for - when you started with none at the onset of the blog - and kids are notorious for being picky eaters, whimsical, changing their mind about what they like at a moment's notice, rejecting an entire dish outright for the sake of one ingredient, choosing processed foods over the best homemade version, etc - not all at once, but then again not consistently enough to plan for :) I hope that you give yourself LOTS of credit for what you did - and I think you accomplished your goal, which was to "Justify my addiction". That was it! You went WAY beyond that and hopefully found some amazing recipes (hey, 20 great ones would be enough, you probably have way more than that). And not to speak for you, but it seems like along the way you also found your very favorite cookbooks amongst the collection - the Brand Name series and the Cooking Light (I think I'm getting that right, sorry if I flubbed)...anyway, you found out the best ones among the bunch. There is absolutely nothing wrong with mostly using repeat recipes now, or mostly turning to your favorite cookbooks, in fact I would say that if you do that, then you really accomplished your goal - you waded through all of your cookbooks long enough to find the best recipes and the best cookbooks for YOU. Thank-you for blogging, and for keeping it up for people to still be able to read - it kept me company during all of my workouts and several days off at the beach - LOL. LOVED it, inspiring!!!!!!

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