Evolve discreetly into a 1950s domestic goddess

That’s the only way to describe the fact that I can cook now. ha!

I made a pasta topper (I hesitate to say sauce) last night without a recipe that was much tastier then the jarred marinara we buy.

I’ve been trying my best to keep the house cleaner and while J is working and I’m trying to find new clients I’m really trying to keep things in order around here. I’m thinking of marking this done so that I can do some house cleaning on my 43things page.

I made cookies yesterday as a peace offering to my neighbors for the noise we made on new years eve. It was fun. I made healthy diabetic oatmeal cookies. I think I’ll probably be baking more often. I really do enjoy it. Especially when i can just go to my pantry for ingredients and not need to stop by the store first.

I am indeed goddess like! !

it weren’t for the cleaning.

I started watching Mad Men recently. There seems to be some domestic godliness going on there. I have no desire to be a housewife, however, spending my day riding horses and looking primped and pretty does sound appealing. I just wish cleaning wasn’t so unpleasant. :)

My 2 min rule has been helping me some but who wants to clean a bathroom. Unfortunately that take way more then 2 mins. bah.

I’ve made several meals without a recipe… no one keeled over and died. No wretching was had. No X’s over the eyes with the feet up in the air. Plates were even cleared, I’m not saying any one wanted to eat the left overs the next day but hey… this is progress people!

And when it came time to think about dinner I asked my mom if she had a couple ingredients… WHY? so I could cook us all dinner. Wow I really AM a domestic goddess!

rewind 1 year ago… I was still living with the distinction of being the girl who could burn pasta. HA!

I just didn’t know it at the time. Learning how to cook last year opened my eyes to so many things. I always liked to bake but only did so once a year. I just baked some bread and made some dinner in my crock pot. If I were to actually say that out loud right now, I think, there would be fear of me bursting out laughing.

That being said I’m really enjoying my new domesticity. That is what is so great about being alive; One can reinvent themselves over and over in a lifetime. Never staying the same and also never really changing. I don’t know what will be the bench mark that makes me check this off my too do list. I’m not sure I’m ready to do that yet. I still smile every time I see this on my list. So there it stays.

called me Betty Crocker the other night because I made muffins. I wasn’t sure to take it as a insult or a complement. ha. My muffins didn’t come out as good as I’d hoped. I substituted brown rice flour for wheat flour but I’m not sure if that is what threw the recipe off. I also had the option of using oil instead of butter and I think the butter would have helped. Either way I think my evolution is underway.

I think this, for me, is sort of wrapped up in my want to be more self sufficient. I mean in terms of my want of a veggie garden and the such. Its also wrapped up in my concern over the chemicals sprayed on food and wanting to learn to cook things with organic ingredients. I know its kind of weird and probably misplaced in a way but these things made me want learn how to cook for myself, I still want to learn to can things. Also my want to get out of debt made me want to be able to make thigns I want instead of buy. I realized that my grandmother would have been appauled at all the frivolous things I spend money and a little more self sufficency is really in order. I want to learn to sew (finally). I have also reached a point in my life where I’ve achieved many of my earlier long term goals and I’m reevaluating many things. I want to spend more time enjoying the life I’ve built and right now that means hosting dinner parties or a cocktail hours.

So in these ways I want to be that stereotype. That perfect happy 50’s woman who does it all and takes names. I dont know all of what my specific goals will here yet but I’ll figure them out as I go along. :D