perfectly normal to us...we generally prepare our meals from scratch...we rarely dined out, and haven't since covid-19, nor have we done any take out. We dined out a lot for business...it gets old...and we both worked in restaurants while going to school...we know what goes on in the kitchen
we love to cook...gives you complete control over the ingredients, is a lot less costly and we're each on a first name basis with the chef / sous-chef
we also make our own sausage, grind our own cheese and breadcrumbs, make our own pasta, grind our own hamburger blend of pork and chuck, we make all our own soups....this Saturday we're cooking escargot and chateaubriand just for the heck of it
cooking together became a hobby for us back in the early nineties....we both worked, whoever came home cooked, the other did the dishes
we've been cooking up a storm of late and got back into 'canning' in preparation for hurricane season....
over the years we've taken quite a few cooking classes at Johnson & Wales and with private chefs in Savannah, Miami and Ft Lauderdale...once you understand how to cook and you have the right tools to do it...it's not a big deal (but if you have 48 spices, you already know that)
our kids refer to as 'foodies'...but they thoroughly loved the 175 page 'family cookbook' that we gave them one Christmas...one of the kids tried to 'cook through it
you are correct about a lot of folks in TV not cooking
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