I love to eat (as my not particularly svelte figure will
attest) and though I do not really like to cook, I do wish I could bake
more. Maybe it is the aroma of baked
goods, or the warmth of the oven. Either
way, baking would be a pretty good hobby--and the upside would be all that
delicious food.
Money isn't the obstacle to baking. You could sink a lot of money in mixers,
pans, and decorative measuring cups, but that isn't really necessary. I have rolled out dough using a glass coke
bottle, and gone without accurate measuring cups. You can make do. Yes, a good mixer would save your arms, but
you probably need the exercise is you're going to eat everything you bake.
Time seems to be the real problem. It takes quite a bit of time to put together
good baking--though my mother can whip up quite half a dozen loaves of bread in
no time flat. After I get home from
work, I just want to eat. I don't have the energy to start kneading flour and
greasing bake pans. As for the
weekend..... there just aren't enough hours in the day. There's yard work, house cleaning, and a ton
of other chores. Add to that the hobbies
that I already have (see the previous 80 or so posts) and you can see that time
isn't on my side.
I think that cooking it's a relaxing activity, I almost cook nothing, but I'm doing a free cooking course in a supermarket, the teachers are all chef's, it's very cool, seeing them cooking it's like watching adult movies... hehehe, because you feel connected with the food and you are always concentrated on what he's doing, and finally you can taste all the food, it's awesome!
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luckily, my girlfriend cooks very well, and she knows to cook a loot of Italian food, hehe
you should look in your city or in Toronto about cooking courses, it's very interesting and it could be a good hobby cooking the dishes you learn.