Me? A Chef?

Oh god, I am so hungry right now I could eat two cows and three elephants and have room left over for three dinosaurs as dessert! That's how hungry I am. And it doesn't help much when I blog hop and ended up on blogs that have pictures of mouth watering food!

You know who you are, you sadistic little people ... LOL! The reason I'm hungry is cos I didn't really have anything for lunch today. I normally don't take lunch anyway but I do eat some light stuff during lunch and that would normally last me till dinner but today I didn't feel like eating anything at lunch and now I'm regretting that decision considerably.

We'll be going out for dinner tonight cos wifey didn't cook for the boys and I'm too hungry and lazy to cook my dinner. Yes, I cook my own dinner these days and it's not cos wifey doesn't want to cook for me or anything like that. In fact, I'm the one who has suddenly started to enjoy cooking. I even cook for wifey sometimes, that is, on days when she's brave and adventurous enough to try my cooking ... LOL!

All this actually started when both wifey and me decided to start dieting. And just for your information, I am still on my diet and it's been a little over two months now. This is the longest I've gone on any diets in my entire life. And I'm happy to say that I feel way healthier than I ever did. Ok, back to the cooking.

Ever since we started our diet, I've cut back on rice considerably (in fact in the last 2 months I've only eaten rice 9 times) and started eating stuff like salads, chicken or corned beef sandwiches, chicken soups, etc, etc. And I decided to actually make all my own ingredients and stuff. If I wanted to eat a chicken sandwich for dinner, I'd either stir fry the chicken or boil it and then shred it and make my own sandwich.

And I got wifey to teach me how to actually cook them. She was more than happy with teaching me and though it took a few failed attempts, but I got the recipe down perfectly the way I wanted it. And ever since then I've started to like cooking my own dinner. I won't even let wifey cook for me cos I want it prepared just the way I like it. And I must say that I can make a mean blue cheese chicken sandwich that is way better than what Tony Roma's can do ... LOL!

I know my buddy Adrian is probably shaking his head in disbelief that I'm actually interested in cooking these days. I mean, I'm the guy who could ruin boiling water even and now I just love cooking. Ok, granted I don't really know how to cook all that many dishes but I'm learning and I've just recently mastered making my own chicken soup :D I like experimenting when I cook. I'll try all kinds of things and there has been many a ruined attempt but I'll get them right eventually.

I don't know but I guess the diet thingy must have stirred up some secret desire I have for cooking that's been locked up inside me or something. I've even started to enjoy cooking shows on TV and would be telling wifey excitedly that I wanna try and cook that and that and also that. And she'll be giving me this 'urrmmm, ok sayang, sure sayang, anything you say sayang' look ... LOL! Just you wait honey, I'll whip you up something fancy one of this days, if I don't burn the house down, that is ... :D

With that said and done, I'm even hungrier right now especially after talking about food! I can't wait to go home, pick wifey and the boys up and head out to get dinner. The only thing about eating out is finding something that will satisfy my diet kinda food and also keeping the boys happy with the kind of food they want.
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