disaster in the kitchen

Hi, as a mother, I well understand your puzzle. Actually there is nothing disastrous in your kitchen. As in a marriage, we cannot expect the whole marriage life tremendously exciting after the first few years. Afterwards, it is the responsibility and if not consequences that make us tied to the family members. It is so natural that we are living a plain life, for which everybody makes his or her contribution. Back to your cooking, it is blessing that your family is well bred, healthy and happy. If you feel like it, you can attend some sort of programs to try something new, either upgrading in cooking skills, or other hobbies. Life is shiny most of the time. After a period of rain or even storm, fine day will soon be back.

Hi there! I guess that's it. You have to take a break. Or you need to be inspired. I remember that thing happened to me too. When I just felt like cooking, I do and it tastes good. But when I am expected to cook, usually, it tastes just like the ordinary.

Well you said it by yourself, you need to take a break, sometime it comes so monotonus that something that you loved to do will become something odd to do. I think you should keep a bit out from the kitchen so to take a break from cooking...

Perhaps you pressured yourself much or you were too confident about your past cooking successes. Once you failed, you though you lost the magic. You need to regain the passion you lost for cooking. Food tastes better when prepared with love.