Cooking

I saw a movie tonight (date night, don't ya know) entitled, "Julia and Julie". Nice show but as my wife and I got to talking I realized where my love of cooking has come. Well, my dad liked to cook but I never saw him do that but I am told he and I do about the same things. Frustrates our wives a bit when we come in and just add things but he and I do the same things. Weird how genes, heritage and legacies all play together. Anyway, back to cooking. When I was young, (back in the jurassic era) I would watch PBS and Julia Child. I remember watching her cook and I would try at a young age to imitate her. I never saw her clean up or wash dishes so I didn't think that was part of cooking (still don't) and I would use and still do almost every pot, pan, spatula, whisk, measuring device that is available. Why?, you might ask? I'll tell you, so you don't cross contaminate the ingredients until the proper time for them to be mixed together. I was watching TV in black and white (that's all they had back then when I was really young. (sidebar: I remember getting our first color TV (we were the first in my extended family to have one amongst the cousins) and how green the people used to look. No one can understand this unless they saw it) and it was also PR (pre-remote), well, I remember having one black and white TV with a remote, it was a Zenith and it would click from channel to channel until it arrived at the correct channel) (really long parenthetical aside, sorry)) and I was fascinated with the way she cooked and how she cooked. I remember my mom once making Beef Wellington after watching a show and me begging for one. It was delicious. I love being a meatatarian. But I have a question: if we eat things that are vegetarians (like cows and chickens and deer and such) by extension doesn't that make us vegetarians as well? Just curious. Anyway, I love to cook but not clean. I love to experiment. I try to get my wife to change her native dishes because I know an ingredient will go great with the dish and I get this crusty look and a comment that it's not the way the dish is done. Experimenting is fun when I cook. Cooking is easy. I am glad that I was able to reflect on my past and discover something about myself: Why I love cooking. I hope that I have instill some of that in my children. I think I have. Cooking is fun. I love cooking (but not cleaning)!