Originally Posted by
FlyingJoy
Pre-covid, I was dining out or buying takeout/ready meals at least 3-4 times a week. It's not that I didn't like cooking; I was just so busy and exhausted from work plus constant personal long-haul travel (my family is scattered across three continents).
It's quite eerie. One of the New Year's resolutions I wrote down on January 1 was "cook more". You know what they say...be careful what you wish for!
I will never go back to my previous level of dine out/takeout, having further developed my cooking skills in isolation and invested in some quality equipment (KitchenAid, Vitamix, Cuisinart food processor). I am now able to make almost everything myself, from bread to mains to desserts.
I am also about to start making my own ice cream like
gaobest . I bought the Salt & Straw ice cream cookbook the other day! (I'm a big fan of Salt & Straw, as someone who spends a lot of time in the USA)...
big kudos. I don’t actually make ice cream - I used to go to Salt & Straw often but now I’m only buying pints and waffle cones, then preparing ice cream cones at home. So that’s the extent of my making ice cream :-)
I still don’t desire return to restaurants or carryout; my spouse wants it so we get it and I’m often quietly not thrilled. We had to get lobster roll on Sunday and yes they’re good but I didn’t get mass joy from it. Good lesson for me.
then We went to a pool on Wednesday 45 minutes N of sf, and on the drive home we had to stop at Shake Shack and I was happy to stop there while not ordering anything. I just didn’t need it. :-)