I've been doing a lot more cooking over the past few weeks. I've used the stove and oven regularly! Two weeks ago, I went to Half Price Books to look at cookbooks. I came away with three, a book on Asian cooking, a vegetarian cookbook, as well as a Texas cookbook that has a bunch of recipes contributed by various celebrities.
Armed with those plus our other cookbooks, I've tried to plan out weekly meals on Sunday and venture to the store once a week to get the ingredients. Most of the recipes have turned out really well. I've decided to make spinach lasagna my new specialty, it turned out so well, and we ate on it for a few days.
Some of them were not so great, such as when I got a bit happy with the lemon juice on some veggies, or the baked macaroni and cheese. (Next time I'll cook the macaroni before it goes into the oven. The recipe said it could be cooked or uncooked, but it was hard to swallow.)
The best part about cooking is when David joins me! We've made grilled veggies together, and he'll often help in the kitchen. Last night, we made quesadillas together! I sliced the avocados and assembled them, while David was in charge of cooking them on the griddle! They turned out well, and it was a lot of fun working together. We're a great team!