Yes, I treat it like a full time job with explicit responsibilities and a rotating schedule to keep myself busy. (Which is a lot, tbh - daily life is already stressful enough ... my lease is up in a couple months and I am struggling to find affordable housing in a particularly bad housing market - it's very stressful.)

I'm not sure I have a single, all-time top dish, but here are some repeat favorites:

• bierocks
• enchiladas
• chili (and variants: pumpkin chili, beet chili)
• Cornish pasties
• pizza (I like to stuff the crust with pepper jack cheese)
• cheeseburgers & fries
• nachos
• Nambian Butternut Squash Soup (this is a favorite - if I make this, my partner will eat through the whole pot in a few days, lol; I add red lentils to give it more protein and make it more filling)
• Souvlaki in a pita - basically Greek style grilled meat in a pita bread with french fries and tzatziki sauce, and fresh red onion and tomatoes - this dish is a total indulgence
• Thai curries (mostly panang, red curry, and Masaman)
• Indian curries (e.g. Punjabi rajma masala, butter chicken, etc.)

I could keep going, but I'm getting hungry and I should stop 😆 I love food, and I love cooking.

yes, this was originally more of a retirement plan that I would eventually quit my job once we had enough saved up and it wouldn't be too much of a financial burden for me to be unemployed (like, we were hoping there would be a point where we felt life would be overall be less stressful and better if I picked up the domestic labor full-time than if I worked a job full-time while still doing the domestic labor - I'm doing the cooking and laundry no matter what, so retirement is mostly a stress-reduction strategy).

But then I was unexpectedly pushed out of my job, so we found ourselves in this situation a bit too early. I'm constantly stressed about finances now and trying to find a path to get us into a financially viable situation (right now we are far from financially sustainable, the housing shortage and having to flee across state lines meant we were stuck in a massively over-priced housing situation).

Hopefully we find a path to cheaper housing and the stress settles down (and we don't have any major health emergencies or other sudden extreme expenses - e.g. we were in a bad car wreck and we had to replace our car, and let's just say the car insurance didn't suitably cover the cost of replacing it, etc. we can only take so many blows).

But yes, theoretically there is a way this could work out that would be like a dream scenario where I am just taking care of the domestic labor I was doing anyway when I was working full-time, and that life is just easier and happier for it.