To all the 3-headed people out there...

[Angelina]

...if you really did have 3 heads, you should hold all of them up high, and be proud! I want to thank you and all the people that post about all the recipes they tried each month. I have to confess I don't try that many, maybe one or two each time. But reading about how you juggle work, families, work and exercise, has inspired me to get off my couch and try harder. I actually printed out the posts on the 3-headed thread this evening and read them on the subway on the way home. Now, I WANT to be one of those people who bring in lunch and make everybody else swoon in envy and wonder. Can you believe there is this guy at my job who eats canned soup for lunch every day? Just like that. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/eek.gif He opens the can and eats. Little gobs of fat and everything...!
I am not that bad. Far from it. But thanks to you all, I just want to get better and better, cook delicious dinners and bake (my favourite!)like it's going out of style! Either that, or it's my squirrel instinct that kicks in this time of the year, when the days get shorter and it finally gets a bit cooler.. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/biggrin.gif But thank you, thank you, thank you! I could not do it without the wonderful people that post here and encourage and inspire me and probably many other readers as well!!

[Ohioan]

Aw, shucks, Angelina, 'tain't nothin'. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/wink.gif But what a lovely, kind message. I, too, get encouragement from all the wonderful people who post here. Someone said on another post that being here is like sitting around the kitchen table with a lot of people who love the same things -- mostly food, but more than "just" food. Food is love. And food, like love, is an art form.

Warmly, Phoebe

[Holly S]

Angelina,
I have goose bumps! What a lovely post. I started that three headed post, and it made me feel a great deal better to know that so many of us are reviving the lost art of cooking for the shear enjoyment of doing something we love. It also brought back the most wonder childhood memories reading some of the posts that the wonderful Moms here posted, "Yea Moms!" My grandmother used to get up in the middle of the summer at 5 am to make us home made crullers, hot deep fat and all. Even when it was 95 out at sunrise. Now if that isn't love, I don't know what is. And it made me enjoy my cooking all the more!

So thank you for your lovely post, and I am glad that we have all inspired you, and know that your wonderful message has inspired me too!

Warm Regards,
Holly

[MrsReber]

Hey, wow, that was me who said it's like sitting around the table with a bunch of good friend and talking about things that matter to us.

Angelina, I'm glad you have been inspired. Nothing makes me more proud than preparing a wonderful meal or baking something delicious and really enjoying it. Some folks just don't appreciate and savor good food. Most of the family gatherings involving my dad revolve around food. We all say "ah! We'll gain five pounds in 2 days!" but I remember most of the big dinners that we have had with him and how we'd sit at the table for a few hours and just enjoy a meal.

I could go on forever, but what I really want to say is that I'm glad we can inspire others to take part in creating great food. It really is a state of mind and it takes a certain kind of person to have a real love for it.

[cookgirl]

All right Angelina...
I have one head. I'm jealous of all you three headed people (well..except for the three head thing).
BUT on to the really important thing: This guy at your work...does he eat the soup cold? Because the way you've described it, I'm really scared for this man!!!

[Angelina]

Originally posted by cookgirl:
All right Angelina...
I have one head. I'm jealous of all you three headed people (well..except for the three head thing).
BUT on to the really important thing: This guy at your work...does he eat the soup cold? Because the way you've described it, I'm really scared for this man!!!

Cold!! Straight from the can. Fat floating on top! But he is a very strange guy. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/frown.gif

[SandyDee]

Angelina, Loved your post. This board really is inspirational (and great fun, too)
I can relate to so much of what is said here, and, though I have been enjoying cooking a variety of things for some time now, I have learned alot from reading all the different posts.

[RunnerKim]

Since we're on the topic of saying thanks - this Board has done wonders for increasing the variety of foods that I eat - I read raves about recipes I would never have looked at twice and will give them a try.

Just last night I made the Mexican Bulgar Salad with Citurs-Jalopeno Vinaigrette and couldn't get over how good it was! First time I've (happily) eaten zucchini. And second time with bulgar (first recipe I wasn't excited about) and I can't tolerate much heat spice so generally would have avoided anything that called for jalopenos - so needless to say I'd never have tried this recipe without hearing people on this board carry on about it! Thank you everyone for posting your reviews - the good, the bad and the indifferent.

Kim