I like to cook for my family... but I am NOT a natural cook by any means. My mother was not a big cook either. We had a lot of fast-food and hamburger helper while we were growing up.
I must have a recipe with whatever I cook so I am always flipping through cook books to find good recipes. And tonight I thought I'd make something different. I found a recipe for pork fajitas. Now, some of you may be thinking "fajitas aren't hard to make. Why do you need a recipe?" Again, I am not a natural cook. First, I am afraid of knives and always paranoid I will cut myself. Most of the time I manage ok, despite this fear. So I'm cutting up a pepper and I get the stem and seeds out fine. However, I was a little difficult because I had let the pepper get a little old and flimsy. Then I start thinking about how I'm also going to have to cut the onion and the hot oil the recipe calls for. I'm paranoid of hot oil. It pops sometimes and can burn. My paranoia of being burned causes me to be a little afraid of ovens also (but it has gotten much better since I started cooking more often).
So, my difficulty with the pepper and worry about cutting the onion, pork, and cooking them in oil left me with one option... asking my husband to cook it instead. Luckily he obliged and it turned out delicious. Maybe I'll try to cook it again sometime. Till then I'll stick with the stuff I know.
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