Tuesday, September 13, 2011

What Are My Hobbies?!

I need to remember the things that are my hobbies AND DO THEM. I just remembered after playing volleyball with my friends that I love sports, especially volleyball and soccer, and I claim them as hobbies yet I don't do them that much anymore. I don't have a group that plays weekly and I'm not on a team so I don't play. I used to play intramural soccer at BYU :( I also love performing but don't do that either, another group activity. The closest I come is singing in ward choir. The other thing is that if I want to be in a great show, I have to audition against BYU performance majors whose life is the stage and I am way out of practice. Anyway, I just miss doing the things that I did so much in high school. Now all I do is watch movies, shows, or read and work out. Those are all individual hobbies, if you can call watching movies or shows a hobby. Granted, it takes more effort to do sports and performing but I miss them and should put that effort in. Can anybody help me?

I just found a new hobby. I am really jealous of the cooking skills that my friends have. I want to be a better cook and try new recipes. My problem is that I figure if I buy some obscure ingredient, I will never use it again and it is expensive to buy tons of new ingredients. I cook like this: Put some frozen chicken cordon blue in the oven, boil pasta and slap some store bought sauce on it, then defrost the frozen corn. That isn't real cooking and I want to be more legit. Tonight I realized that I can make homemade bread. Yes that is cornmeal for the texturization of the bottom of the bread.
What is my favorite food in the entire world? Bread and cheese. Figures, I'm a French teacher. Why don't I buy a ton of flour and yeast and make something that I will eat all the time? This is where I am starting on my journey to expand my cooking horizons. Thanks to our Relief Society cooking/baking group, I am having this epiphany. You might be saying, "Duh Ashley. Everyone makes their own bread," but I am a late bloomer in the "take effort to actually make good food" realm. For some reason I had it in my mind that you needed a bread maker to make bread. This is exciting! I can make my favorite food often and in my own kitchen.

4 comments:

  1. I don't make home made bread Go you!!! By the way, if you would like to start playing volleyball more, we play almost every monday and saturday night at around 8:30 in the RB you should come! and even if we're not there people are playing.

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  2. Racket ball might fill that void. I play at least once a week. I don't know the official rules, so we just hit the ball and chase it. It's actually a really good work-out and it's made me better at tennis. Also, a little Rodgers-Beck would fill your time nicely. Just sayin'...

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