Life is short. Make the Cheesy Potatoes

I finally was able to have a small get-together with my family for Easter this year and of course, it involved all sorts of food. Ham, corn, salad but there’s one thing I ONLY eat during the holidays and I don’t know why – cheesy potatoes.

What is so damn special about cheesy potatoes? They’re delicious, fattening I’m sure but super simple and yet I only eat them on the holidays. There’s a few things like that. Pistachio fluff for example (cool whip, pistachio pudding mix and all-over numminess). I love this stuff – but I never make it.

In fact, I don’t make a lot of food. During work I’ll get up briefly to grab a lean cuisine or make a poor, pathetic salad over whatever hasn’t wilted in my fridge. After work, I’ll throw something together like a pork chop and frozen peas, or live off grocery-store sushi. I do the bare minimum with food but I don’t enjoy said food. It goes from my fork to my mouth like an automaton.

It was a small Easter but better than last year when we couldn’t do much at all – and I missed my family most of all but man, I missed that damn food. I realize my cooking skills aren’t what they should be, but even when I do cook, I don’t cook things I like. Last week, I craved tacos, so I went to Taco Bell. It never crossed my mind that I could, you know, make them (and they’d probably be even better).

So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to make the cheesy potatoes, maybe because it’s a Tuesday or after a hard meeting. I’m going to throw some pistachio fluff together, simply because I want it. I’m not going to wait for special occasions to have good things in my life.

So what kind of foods are you going to start making/enjoying?