My dad always cooked Sat. night meal. All 4 boys in his family knew how to cook. when he became excited about baking, rolls, pie etc. they were added to Sat. night. For some reason the rolls (including cloverleaf ones) were delicious, but bread was a failure.
Who does the cooking at your place?
I cook during the week. DSIL will cook on Saturday, and on Sunday (now that Nascar season has begun again), it's every person for themselves.
I do all the cooking because cats don't have opposing thumbs. More and more I try to cook everything from scratch. The problem is I'm not a very good cook and starting from the raw ingredients gives me even more chance to mess it up.
I find my thumb to be very agreeable.
It helps when you want to open a can - or a bottle or get a free ride.
ge1836 - Watch out it may not be a phase. My husband is still a picky eater, and didn't eat a sandwich until his late 20's!
My DH and I eat totally different things (partly because he's picky and mostly because he has IBS), so we each cook for ourselves. I don't like cooking much - it needs to have few ingredients and not require a lot of attention :)
I just cant relate to people who dont like to cook or eat.
But then I have the weight problems to show for it.
I also know people who are non food people.Theyre other steller qualities make up for it.
I love to cook and bake and grill and .... well, whatever!
I have found that if you want something prepared "right" you have to do it yourself!!
Growing up, I had a largely carbon-based diet, so it was originally out of necessity, and dad's constant "encouragement."
I'm one of those non-food people. I hate cooking. Eating is a waste of time. When I finally get the shakes, I go eat a bowl of cereal.
I'm the main cook in the house. I wouldn't cook at all if I didn't have a child that needed a balanced meal. DH cooks sometimes on weekends. He loves to BBQ in the summer.
That's one of the best things about not having kids...if I want to eat a jar of dill pickles for supper, I can!!
Yup!! I miss those days.
Eating is a waste of time??!! It's one of the great pleasures of life!
It is!!
I miss being single sometimes. I am a snacker...I'll snack all day...can of V8, later a bowl of fruit...couple hours after that maybe a hard boiled egg or two...every few hours. DH has to have MEALS...ugh...I was a lot lighter when I ate my way.
oh man, if DH and I had kids that'd be a mess. Probably would have to make 3 meals. ugh
I do like food, but just don't want to make/cook it. I know how, but no fun when it is just yourself. Plus had too many times I'd try a new recipe, spend a lot of time on it, then hate it. Man that sucks.
So I'd just like a personal chef :)
Yeah, I know it is for many. (eating being a pleasure) Maybe if I had a cook to make delicious meals for me. I usually get so interested in what I'm doing, I don't want to break for food.
Me too. I cook weekdays and thought I would get into it, but have not. It's a chore.
Yup. I'll take a personal chef. I'd even go for one of those machines like they had in Star Trek. I'll have a Romulan beer please...
.... make sure to blow off the foam.
sofonisba - I am the same way, when I am in the middle of something I don't want to stop to eat!
But when I am lucky enough to go out for dinner and get a wonderful meal it 'is' one of the greatest pleasures!! My favorite restaurant is the Cafe Escadrille Mm Mm Good. I am salivating just thinking about their lobster raviolis.
Well, you're in the perfect area for lobster!
Lol yes that's true : ) I got a lobster down in FL once and I was like eeewww ; ) ~One reason I endure the nasty new england winters! There is not lobster any where else like new england's.
When my Parents took us kids to Florida one year all I can remember is the sea food and the beaches. This one restaurant was a huge thing looked like an old pirate ship...food was amazing!! I remember I couldn't get the whole ship in one photo, had to divide it into 3 sections...
That must be why everyone was eating those big crab legs!! lol Now I know next time ~ order the crab ; ) The lobster I got down there was a localtype. I wonder if it's better if they use the frozen new england lobsters.
Oh man Now I am craving seafood bigtime. :)
I have a great shrimp scampi recipe
I LOVE crab legs...there was a place in Baltimore that was all you can eat legs (when my sis was in the Navy) we had a pile of empties in the middle of the table at least 3' high.
Wow! A lot of you got the crabs!
LOL
If you see someone coming with a net, run.
We had four children, adults now, but I always enjoyed cooking and baking for my family. Though my husband was not a farmer but we had milking cows, beef cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and chickens and huge vegetable garden. I breaded the onions and garlick, hung the herbs to dry in the barn.
I churned cream for butter, froze vegetables and made lots of vegetable casseroles for winter. Animals were sent to the butcher. Freezer was always full by the end of the season and empty for the new one. Should mention the jellies and marmelade I made from crab apples and grapes and froze tomatoes for sauces and soups.
My children never knew what a loaf of bread tasted from the store in our house or any other ready made food one could buy.
I also have to tell you I grew up in a very cosmopolitan city, Vienna, Austria and food was very hard to come by during the war, to this day I enjoy going to the market and approciate the fact that I am fortinate enough as many of the people in this world do not have this opportunity.
Now I live alone just tending my flower garden and once in a while still bake and cook for my children and grand children and yes, great grand children to eat with me or to take it home for their enjoyment.
Maria
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That is so cool!!
Thanks Meredith, I feel cooking is a creative art that most everyone who appreciates GOOD food can become a master of it, it just takes a lot of patience just like gardening, or any other craft one should never hurry it.
Wow Maria! That is great.
What a wonderful experience, Maria. Many people can take a lesson in not taking things for granted.
Yes, Victor, one should never take anything for granted, life and the nature around us is a gift to all of us.
I was married very young to a wonderful man. I thought about not having any children, he asked why, I said I do not want my children to see me cry the way my mother did because there was nothing to eat. You see, I did not take it for granted that there always be enough for us. So he took me by the hand to go out of doors ans sai, you see there are on hundred acres a lot of it it will be for vegetable gardens and animals, our children will never be hungry.
Of course, I did not even know then how to boil water, when I was 18 years old, lol
Wonderful.
I'm sure you learned to boil water before I did!