Dinner & a Movie

Dinner & a movie, the perfect date night! Tonight me and the mister are cooking up some love with a Tilapia recipe idea that I stole from 'newly wedded wife' and then we'll kick back with What happens in Vegas before watching the Fightin' Phil's beat LA.

Dinner planning and cooking has been one of the hardest things for me to accept and implement since becoming a new wife. I've never had to do it; my mom cooked, then my sister, then my college roommate and then Bo started to learn when we moved in together. I'm so bad, I made see-through pancakes once. Accidental crepes!

Of course I can (most often) follow a recipe and have it turn out similar to the expected result- but i freak out! I have this feeling of utter hopelessness that it just won't taste the same as when someone else makes it. I actually shake when going into the kitchen. I think part of it is that most things like school, computers, crafts, etc. come so easy to me, that I'm stupefied by something so many others understand and I simply don't get. Does anyone else have this problem, or am I just missing the cooking gene?

But really, the major problem is the planning. I am always starving when I get home, and we rarely have all of the right ingredients in the house, so I go right for the cereal or Oreo's. Its an evil, evil cycle. So, I'm going to try to do the weekly plans, trying out one new recipe each week depending on my travel schedule. Its going to be trial by fire!