Learning to Cook!

I have never enjoyed cooking. When I was single I could live on frozen pizza, pasta, frozen dinners and peanut butter toast. When I got married we upgraded to full meals that consisted of Hamburger Helper and tacos, pasta with bread and other very very simple meals. Now, with a family and a huge list of foods we must avoid, I am being forced to cook from scratch, real food.
Now, that’s not such a horrible thing. It has in fact made us eat a lot more fresh fruits and vegetables. I would say we eat much healthier now than in the past, minus the fact that my son can’t eat chicken, so most of our meals are beef or pork, mostly beef because I just can’t get pork to taste good except for good ‘ole ham. (Boy, we really miss chicken!) But it’s not practical to make several entres for dinner. It’s just not going to happen. One meal for everyone! This isn’t a restaurant, you know!

So, I have been learning to cook out of necessity. And I have learned to substitute recipe ingredients out of necessity. And I have to say, we’re managing. I actually learned to make some awesome pancakes… they were so much better than the boxed ones you add water to that my husband asked me not to go back to those! But now we’ve been thrown the new curve of no milk. So back to the drawing board with the pancakes to see how I can make an edible pancake without eggs or milk. I consider myself still very new at this. New to cooking in general, and very new to allergy cooking. I know there are plenty of experienced Moms out there. I’ve browsed many a website looking for recipes, allergan free recipes, etc.

I’m hoping that by the time I master this, he will no longer have to avoid these food items. I’m praying for Murphy’s law in this case! Though, I think I will continue to cook better meals for the family. It’s just the right thing to do, and it seems to get a little easier every day.