I feel so much more expressive about things now that I have been on hormones.  I can't tell if it is something that I am letting out from being suppressed, or if it is something new that popped up from hormones.

Before, I like to make things, but nothing like a couch or a desk or something - which is weird because it (to me) seems more masculine, but who cares.

Then cooking started up, like a month ago, at about 3 months (I am at four months two days ago).  I can't get enough of cooking.  Like, I went vegetarian for a month for the sheer fact of being able to do it (and for health I guess).  Anyway, (other than during my recovery right now) I am cooking everything.  I want to just cook cook cook, and even during this recovery, I made the most amazing roasted red pepper tomato soup (which is soooo good), and tonight I made the most amazing barbecue sauce in the world.  It is just so good.   It blows all the crap in the stores away.

So, I guess I am wondering if other people have had other experiences.  Wanting to cook more or do more artsy things since starting hormones.  Let me know.

Now, I am drugged on pain killers (prescription of course) and it's time to go to bed because I am getting super tired.

Valerie

I've taken up cooking more this year than the last. Made some breaded salmon the other day. I'm not a fancy cook, or a good one, but I think I've done more cooking than I did last year.

The main thing I've been able to do since taking hormones is write every day. Never was able to concentrate enough before to be serious about it.

Since hormones- I am more body conscious, more modest, more level-headed in general (okay that's debatable), and very, very much more into just writing stories, which is an artsy thing I guess. Interesting that 2 of us have mentioned it. For me it's sort of like your cooking maybe. It was always there to some degree, but definitely a place I have found renewed interest and inspiration since HRT.

did you like to cook at all before?

I have always loved to cook, and I hope to be able to have a better kitchen one day.  I live in a RV, and that just isn't much room to cook.  But I keep trying.



Janet

I've been told that I am a better cook now than what I was in the "before times."

Shauna

I always loved to cook and bake and that hasn't changed in the 13 months on hrt, what has changed is i love to write, i absolutely hated it before but now i get carried away sometimes.

Paula

Being the wife, I feel it is my duty to cook.  And I always liked cooking, but not just for myself.  I'll rarely cook anything just for me.

But since Pat and I have been together, I won't let her lift a pot in "MY" kitchen!  She's my husband I and I do all the cooking for her.  I have become much more expressive in my cooking.  Also I seem to have developed an innate sense of what to cook, when to serve it, and how to present it.  I never really had that before.

I don't really know if it's from the hormones or having a serious relationship, but I get a joy now in the kitchen I have rarely felt before.

-Sandy

Quote from: FairyGirl on June 26, 2009, 12:44:57 AM
Since hormones- I am more body conscious, more modest, more level-headed in general (okay that's debatable), and very, very much more into just writing stories, which is an artsy thing I guess. Interesting that 2 of us have mentioned it. For me it's sort of like your cooking maybe. It was always there to some degree, but definitely a place I have found renewed interest and inspiration since HRT.

did you like to cook at all before?

Not really.  I was straight up Wendy's and McDonald's.  I think my stomach is a bit weird.  I went in for my FFS surgery and ate dinner at about 5 30 or 6 00 pm, and was starving.  Food is normally out of the stomach in about 6 to 8 hours.  That's why they tell you not to eat past midnight.  Anyway, they had to pump my stomach because the dinner I ate was still there from 14 hours prior.  Now, this might be why I can eat tons and tons of food, and not gain any weight.  I don't know.

I really had no interest in cooking before, and now I love it.  I love baking and making sauces, and soups and all kinds of awesome things.

I'm more interested in it but I can't say there's been extra motivation to go with the interest ;P

My music has mellowed a bit too, partially as a conscious effort to try to sing in a more feminine tone but I'm more interested in writing the jazzier quiet numbers now.

Well, I haven't like, gone on HRT or started transitioning quite yet, but... I do love to cook a lot now. Just throwing that in here for some small consideration that it may just be a hidden interest that didn't know you had... or that the estrogen awoke within ya.

I so want to cook for my girl.  I guess it is a need to just take care of her.  And yes, I want to be her chief cook and bottle washer.  No because that would make my her wife, and just want to be her partner, in every way.  And I want to be there when she needs me.

Janet

Quote from: Janet Lynn on June 27, 2009, 07:59:30 PM
I so want to cook for my girl.  I guess it is a need to just take care of her.  And yes, I want to be her chief cook and bottle washer.  No because that would make my her wife, and just want to be her partner, in every way.  And I want to be there when she needs me.

Janet

I can feel your love and happiness beaming from here Janet!

You're cooking will be *magical*!

-Sandy