my life in the kitchen: 

50% pining after really complicated recipes with a million expensive ingredients you need ¼ of a teaspoon of, like saffron plucked from the very summit of a Himalayan peak in the fall at 6:34 pm
25% “this is what I could make with what I had in my Closet of Random Ingredients" 
10% "while making this I am a well-oiled machine, my mise en place is exquisite and i know all the steps because i’ve done it a million times" 
10% "I can make this while playing WoW" 
5% actually trying new things that are reasonable to make, sophisticated without being overly récherché, with ingredients that are actually easy to get