I love good food. I hate the term "foodie".
I'm with you on that. It's like the term "desk divers", which refers to people who buy dive watches but only wear them to the office, because they don't scuba dive. This may be a good thread idea.
My wife is a fantastic cook; she's not a gourmet chef type, she just knows how to make any kind of dinner you can think of, and every meal has a balance of side dishes. She'll often make something she's never made before, because she knows how to prepare anything, and she rarely uses recipes. She learned much of it from her mother growing-up. And we also still have a family dinner at her parents' house just about every week. Her mother is a one-woman restaurant; she makes dinners with 5 entrees, 4 sides, several appetizers, and a variety of desserts. She's got that post-holocaust mentality - food is life.
I'm good at operating the grill - that's about it. But because we have great cooks in the family, we only go out to eat about once a week, and it's usually just a casual place. When we go to a nice place, we often get something that's not easy to make at home, like fresh oysters and other seafood.
