Ever eat your husbands cooking?

[vfem]

My husband asked if I wanted to him to make breakfast... so I asked what would we be having today? He said "pop tarts, you know I can't cook"

At least he admits it now!!!!

 

[Ridgerunner]

I do a lot of the cooking, maybe 40%. My wife has special dietary needs so I do have to take care what I cook when I'm cooking for us. I enjoy her occasionally not being here for a meal so I can cook things I like but very seldom get. Not all the time, but occasionally. If I had special needs, I'm confident she would work around those when she cooked.

One son cooks because his wife is a lousy cook and he is pretty good. Work schedule does limit him some. Another son cooks about half the time, depending on his and his wife's work schedule. I don't see it as a sex thing. I see it as a desire, aptitude, and training thing.

 

[Boyd]

for the most part I do the majority of the cooking. Give me raw ingredients and I can usually whip up something. I have learned to tone it down spice wise for my wifes sake, but the kids love it. Lately since she's been off work she's trying to do more and more of the cooking

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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I don't either I just know who can and can't in this house

Boyd...I LOVE spicy food, but well....you shoulda had supper with us last night...lol! It has it's place, but when you aren't expecting it.....it's quite a SHOCK!

 

[mamagardener]

My husband is a pretty good cook, he just doesn't cook enough for my taste.

 

[chixie]

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sounds like my husbands cooking. everything salty and spicy

 

[Olive Hill]

So we learned, cut each other some slack. You are both on the SAME TEAM! Choose the hill you want to die on; if it ain't a big deal, it ain't a big deal. What difference will it make in a year?

Exactly!

I too see it as having nothing to do with gender; neither of us were born knowing how to cook which means we both have an equal shot at learning how. Everyone cooks here, including the kids. Whomever has the time and motivation on any given day is the cook for the night. And everyone does dishes.

If my husband talked about me not being able to do things the way some women talk about how their husbands "can't" cook he'd have a suitcase packed and waiting out front for him so fast he wouldn't have time to blink and I extend that same courtesy to him. If he makes a bad dinner, so what? I'm no saint. I've served poorly tasting dinners, mangled some lumber while "building" things, and managed to ruin all sorts of other things around here -- and frankly, probably will make another mistake today and another tomorrow. If I don't want him in my grill over it all the time I need to stay out of his is the way I see it. *shrug*​

 

[StupidBird]

DH is German, and while interning in England, was the night cook at a Greek restaurant. When first married, I burned water, ruined pans. Some years later, I'm much better, through trial and error and a lot of cooking shows and the library's extensive cookbook section, and my dear, dear MIL.

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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Exactly!

I too see it as having nothing to do with gender; neither of us were born knowing how to cook which means we both have an equal shot at learning how. Everyone cooks here, including the kids. Whomever has the time and motivation on any given day is the cook for the night. And everyone does dishes.

If my husband talked about me not being able to do things the way some women talk about how their husbands "can't" cook he'd have a suitcase packed and waiting out front for him so fast he wouldn't have time to blink and I extend that same courtesy to him. If he makes a bad dinner, so what? I'm no saint. I've served poorly tasting dinners, mangled some lumber while "building" things, and managed to ruin all sorts of other things around here -- and frankly, probably will make another mistake today and another tomorrow. If I don't want him in my grill over it all the time I need to stay out of his is the way I see it. *shrug*

This was intended to be lighthearted. I can't build anything that won't fall down!! I have my strengths, he has his, and mine is cooking and his is building

 

[curliet]

I eat Rick's cooking all the time. He's a very good cook, and we have recently started sharing the cooking chores. No real agreement, just sometimes I cook and sometimes he says he'll cook. And lately he's started a new tradition in our family. French toast on sundays, everybody be here. All the kids, and whoever wants to show up, today he's doing the FT, and I did 2 quiches, there is bacon, pigs in blankets, sausage. Except for the quiche, he's doing it all.