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Chicken pot pie and Balsamic pear green salad
Chicken Pot Pie and Balsamic Pear Green Salad

Some foods seem to present a challenge for me, and I have trouble getting motivated to plan and make them. Any kind of pie is that way to me... fruit pie, pot pie... half way through I tell myself that it really isn't so horrible to make pie after all, and of course I love to eat pie! ;)

But to make pie, I will resist for days or even weeks before finally going through with making it! Maybe I've had a few too many experiences with trying to make 4+ pies at one time with fruit that was past its prime... by myself... with whining or crying children. That definitely detracts from the experience! ;)

Other foods that I would much rather eat than make:

Cookies

Salads

...and I guess that's it, besides pies of course. ;)

Do certain foods pose a sort of mental block to you? Do you avoid those things, or do you dive in anyway? :)

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Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2009-10-12 15:29.

pie mental block

I'm the same way with pie. Just seems like a lot of trouble to make, and then to clean up the mess from rolling out the dough. When I actually jump in and do it, it's not really that bad, but I don't make pie often because of it.

Cathy

Submitted by Martha Artyomenko on Mon, 2009-10-12 16:07.

LOL!

Pie is that way for me, even though I know it is not that hard, but then when I go to make them, I have a hard time just making two pies. We always have had to make them in such great amounts, (we used to do pie sales where we sold 100 pies a couple times a year)

I am working on it!

Submitted by amyd on Mon, 2009-10-12 16:56.
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Cookies Pie Soup None of

Cookies
Pie
Soup

None of those items are hard to make, I just for some reason detest making them.

Submitted by ruthieroo on Mon, 2009-10-12 16:57.

Anything that involves oil:

Anything that involves oil: shallow or deep frying. I wish I could say it was because I was so health conscious ;-) but nah, I love fried food, I just hate frying it and rarely do it. I avoid making pies, too, but I'm not a huge fan of eating them, either, so it just usually doesn't cross my mind to make them. I'm with you on salads because I always feel puzzled as to what to put in them.:-P But cookies I love to make and make them often.:-D

Ruth

Submitted by Katpants on Mon, 2009-10-12 17:08.

We eat a vegetarian diet for

We eat a vegetarian diet for the most part because I hate the smell of meat cooking (most of it anyway) and I hate looking at raw meat. I'm really odd about that so I have to work our menus around that and try to add more protein to our foods, etc.

Funny thing is someone else cooks the meat or I get take out, I have no problem eating meat. As long as I don't have to handle it, it's weird.

I second that I avoid any frying, Hubby doesn't like greasy (but oh I LOVE hashrounds lol)and he's worried about grease fires.

Submitted by lillamissa on Mon, 2009-10-12 17:42.

anything that requires batches

I too get sidelined when it comes to making cookies... I tend to postpone them, and when I get started I'm bad for making some of them and losing the motivation to make the rest from the batter... so the cookies get bigger and bigger as I go along so that there is left leftover...

Same way with homemade rolls, regular bread is easier, but rolls I have to shape, etc...

I prefer when all my cooking can be done at once, when I have to stop and wait, well... I just find other things to do!

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2009-10-12 17:59.

cookies & chicken and dumplings

I also dislike making cookies. I don't like having to run in and out of the kitchen swapping out pans of cookies. Thankfully a couple of my daughters are old enough to be left alone in the kitchen, and one in particular really likes making cookies.
Chicken and dumplings is the other thing. I'm from the South and dumplings down here aren't anything like the balls of dough my husbands family (from Pennsylvania) plops in a cooking pot - no disrespect here, I loved his Grandmother and she was a fine cook. I'm glad I got several of her recipes before she passed on. But, where I'm from we form something like a biscut dough, then knead it, roll it, cut it out, and drop them one at a time into the chicken broth. Delicious, but very time consuming. I don't make them very often.

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2009-10-12 18:32.

anything with a long ingredient list

I am put off by long ingredient lists so I make myself read all the ingredients and most of the time find out most of the list are spices. So I end up not making something that in essence is very easy. Since I force myself to read it anyway, I end up trying more new things.

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2009-10-12 20:02.

I'm getting that way with

I'm getting that way with pies too. In my case, it's because I love them so much and it's getting to the point with 7 of us that we can handle one whole pie at a time. It's upsetting when I can't go back for another slice tomorrow. I need to start making 2 at a time, but that's irritating hence my block :)

I'm love chicken pot pie! (Although I didn't used to.) I simply make your cream of chicken soup while steaming the veggies. Mix it all together with cooked chicken and throw it in a pie crust. Yum! Everyone is a big fan- we actually just had it last night.

- Quinn

Submitted by steadygirl on Mon, 2009-10-12 20:58.

Thawing out meat is my

Thawing out meat is my mental block. We buy our meat at the local meat processing plant 1/2 a big and a 1/4 beef at a time, so it is all in our freezer. I hate going down and bringing it up several days ahead of time to thaw. :P

Submitted by Tammy on Tue, 2009-10-13 01:44.
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Thank you all for sharing

Thank you all for sharing about the things you never feel like starting/making! I'm glad I'm not the only one. :-) Maybe someday I'll have kids old enough to bake cookies for me!! :D

I love, love, LOVE apple pie and when I make it (a few times a year usually) I want to just eat it all up!!! :)

Oh, deep frying/oil isn't my favorite either. Partly because there's a pan of oil to deal with later... and often it's too hot to do anything with it until much later, and I want to be able to clean the kitchen up sooner than that. (Not that I actually do clean up the kitchen right after the meal, but that's the plan anyway...) But I've been thinking maybe I need a frying screen (never tried one of those) so the whole stove, teapot, floor, etc. doesn't get splattered!! :)

Oh, I have a hard time keeping ingredient lists short! Yes, it usually does just end up being seasonings or little "extras" but it can look intimidating at first. :) I was reading through some "5 ingredient" recipes recently and thinking about how very few of my recipes only use 5 ingredients!! :)

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2009-10-13 06:12.

I feel so much better now. I

I feel so much better now. I thought I was the only person who ever procrastinated making something. I have had sweet and sour chicken on the menu several times, but it just keeps being postponed indefinitely. I don't like to cook with large amount of oil because it it so messy and intimidating and always makes our whole apartment smell like a fast-food restaurant. Also, cookies. I mix up the batter and get 2 batches in the oven, then I run out of enthusiasm and put the rest of the cookie dough in the fridge. Then I know I have to use up the cookie dough and it stresses me out until I finally bake the rest of the cookies.

Submitted by AnxiousForNothing on Tue, 2009-10-13 10:57.

With my pregnancies,

With my pregnancies, especially the first one, I couldn't stand chopping up vegetables for salad...and even if I made myself do it, I couldn't stand to eat the finished product. But I could eat salad if someone else made it. Weird, huh?

I don't especially like working with raw meat, especially pork.

Melissa
http://anxiousfornothing.blogspot.com

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2009-10-13 11:44.

I love to cook just about

I love to cook just about anything...and I love to try new experiments in the kitchen. But if it has some ingredient I don't regularly buy, then I often talk myself out of trying something new even though I think the recipe looks delicious.

Also, I can't stand working with any beef except for ground beef so I don't do it very often.

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2009-10-13 14:41.

I wonder...

We moved about 9 or 10 years ago and my kitchen here is much smaller. Since this move, I have felt somewhat hindered by lack of space. Pies are an issue for me- unless I cheat and buy ready crusts! I think my problem is feeling cramped or that I don't have enough room to make a big spread. At our old house, I had one extra special counter all to myself. I could roll, chop, cut, mess- and still have the other counters for meal times etc.
-just wonderin'-

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2009-10-16 10:18.

mental block

I am that way with pie, too! Also, with biscuits, cutting up whole chickens and cooking anything that splatters(bacon, fried eggs, sausage,etc..)! I can't beat the cost of whole chickens, so I just dive in and do it, but it's painful! I worry about spreading dangerous bacteria around. And with 3 children ages 5 and under, it's just to complicated and messy to worry about pies and biscuits!

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