Cooking

I've never had to worry about cooking here at the Ramirez residence. :) Since I was a little girl my Dad has always been the cook of the family. In his younger days he use to work at a "fresa" hotel (is what he calls it) in Mexico. He worked as a cook and at one point as a server. As I got older I would randomly ask my Dad to give me some of his famous recipes, but the motivation to learn how to cook came and went with the years. I guess I can't use my Dad as an excuse for not knowing how to cook, because if I really wanted to learn, I WOULD.

Soooo the point here is that I have to learn how to cook. I should rephrase that, I WANT to learn, I don't HAVE to. Raul has admitted that it would be nice to eat home cooked meals, at the present time all he eats is fast food. :( I can't see us eating out all the time, it can get too expensive and it can be dangerous to the waistline and our health.

So a while back Jamie recommended that I subscribe to a Food & Family magazine. Of course I didn't do it, so she signed me up and I now receive free magazines. :) They are great, BUT there is only so much American style food we can have. Raul and I enjoy our delicious Mexican dishes as well. So I've just decided to compile numerous famous recipes by my Dad and "experiment" with some of the recipes in the book. I'll get into it gradually, and we will see how it goes. The only thing I HATE doing is cutting tomatoes and onions. Those tomatoes are messy, and not cooperative. LOL.

I hope I don't take after my Mom, she burns everything, yes people you read right, she burns everything. She gets easily distracted with her business, phone calls, paper work, etc. etc...that she forgets what she is doing in the kitchen. But my Dad always comes to the rescue and ends up taking over. :)