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How do i get the wife to do some home cooking? fair enough she cooks the produce from the lottie, but get her to cook other things and you think World War 3 had broken out  ;D , plates, cups, chairs, kitchen sink gets thrown about ( i tell you she's a big woman ) and if it doesn't come in a micro wave box then forget it  :-/ . So any suggestions?

Christmas is coming, how about an interesting cookery book, (not too heavy in case she launches it back at you!)or a cookery course at your local adult education, then you could go together it may be fun! ;D DP

Don't get me wrong she can cook, but, she hates it  :( , she has more cook books than delia (i've got the scars to prove it ) she reckons i should do all the cooking  :-/ as i just sit here at work and do nothing all day but go on the web (true) well that's a perk of being the boss says i  ;D .

Ye great daft lummox!!!!  :) :) :)

Get yourself a good cook-book!!!  Get in there - I'm biased, I enjoy cooking, and trying all sorts of different stuff.

One of the things we used to fight about was which cook book belonged to whom - she got some of the real crackers when we separated :(.  Ah well - but I've still got my recipes in my head.

All best - Gavin

Jethro, get a new one?   :o

The trouble with cooking homes is that they take such a long time to get  tender and you need a very large oven ;D

Hi Gavin, i can cook myself but i'm too knackered, coming from work ,then the lottie get in the house about 8.00pm and crash on the seat  :-/ .

Hi EJ, i would but no-one will have me  :( . ah shame  ;D .

Hi Palustirs, cook on gas mark 4 for 3 years tastes lovely with mint sauce  ;D .

Hate to say it, but I have found over the years you either love to cook or you don't! I love it, him indoors doesn't! If he does actually cook, It's lots of boiling stuff, lots of swear words and lots of wine! (and that is just me watching! ;D) but have to say tho it takes him ages, and is frustrating for me to watch, but the old man can turn out a mean curry! And is is lovely once in a while to not cook!  DP

I have to agree with DP... you either love cooking or you don't!  I'm lucky as my hubby-to-be loves cooking and so do I .... so we've always got loads of home cooked nosh on the table  ;D

Ah to be married to you two women  ;D life would bve so much easier  :-/

you think so?!  one wife is probably enough for any man to cope with  ;)

you'd also end up with an ever expanding waistline with all the home cooking  :)

...and someone has to do the washing up!

Yup we have a deal in our house, whoever cooks, does NOT have to do the washing up....give me cooking any time!! DP

I love cooking and baking!  I'm afraid I am happy as the little woman!  :o  I know, equal rights and all that, but I like to do the cooking, I like a man to open a door for me, I like playing house but I HATE washing up and our dishwasher has packed up!  PAH!  New dishwasher employed, hubby! hehehehe

- you only have BOOKS thrown at you Jethro?

When I had a plate thrown at me, I ducked - hoping it would smash the window and she would be sorry.

Forgot we were in Cyprus and the windows were netted against bombs!! Tim

In Italy, we had french (? a true cosmopolitan pair, us) doors opening onto a terrace. And OH was outside & winding me up...and I lobbed a large still deep-frozen leg of NZ lamb in approximately his direction (in jocular fashion, like, you understand? ;D)...and to my absolute horror I see that it's bang-on-course...

and I shout "DUCK!!!"...and he looks up from his book, moves backwards in his chair, topples it over, goes crashing down backwards onto the concrete and, when he'd regained consciousness says..."but I thought we were having lamb??"  ;D ;D ;D

- love it! One for the books?

You see, folk - at our age - we've been through it all.

I mean, even at Lishka's age!!

And survived.  - Tim

LATER - oh, Lishka, you KNOW I meant it the right way round??

My Aunt used to tell a tale of a woman that killed her hubby by bludgeoning him to death with a frozen leg of lamb, then cooked it, and served the evidence to the investigating police officers in sandwich form!..................Hmmmmmmmmmmm   ;D

Quote- love it!



I mean, even at Lishka's age!!

 - Tim

Oh .......you two.......... do behave yourselves.......for goodness sake!!  ::)  ::)


We ALL know you're old enough to know better!!!





 (  Sorry...still in " chastising 15 year olds " mode!! )

QuoteOh


We ALL know you're old enough to know better..

So old, all I ever knew I've forgotten ::)..

Jethro, tho! Why ever should your wife reproduce a meal which can be bought in a s'market at a good price and little cost in time/effort to herself if she doesn't want to??   'sides... she's probably so busy ironing a crease down the front of your socks she ain't got time for all that cooking malarky. ;D ;D ;D

QuoteSo old, all I ever knew I've forgotten ::)

Sounds familiar Lishka!! I'm getting there .......far too quickly!! ::)  ::)
 

jethro, if someone is not that keen on cooking, meals from them are likely to be tainted with bitterness and anger - i know as many of my efforts, prepared in a sulk, are downright inedible - you are just gonna have to do it yourself and find a trade off somewhere else in the endless domestic saga of family life.

Never mind the breadknife doing the cooking Jethro, get yourself a slow cooker and let that do it for you while your doing other stuff.  Heres a  recipe to start you off.

3lb of chopped beef
3 medium onions ( Chopped up )
1lb of diced potatoes
1 tin of Mackeson.

Throw it all in the slow cooker on low for 5 to 6 hours and serve with a selection of veg. Delicious

It will feed about 6 people or 1 for a week.

Quote3lb of chopped beef
3 medium onions ( Chopped up )
1lb of diced potatoes
1 tin of Mackeson.
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I agree I wouldn't be without my slow cooker but 1 question. What is Mackeson

Bottled, sweeter version of Guiness, Miss B  :)

Kate

The above recipe with Ox-Tail instead of chopped Beef ,Neck end of Laamb or any other of the cheaper cuts of meat are ideal for the slow cooker.

Me?
I LUUUURV to cook... but hate housework and especially
ironing with a passion. :P
Hubby half-jokingly says I've taken on a lottie so I have less time for housework. Oooeerr! didn't know he was telepathic !!!!   :-/
 Can't wait to get down the lottie but foolishly started a uni course in Sept, so have assignments to do( on top of everything else)  :-[
Me finks I am a mad old bat for taking on too much but will NOT let things get in way of my "Lottie time". ;D  ;D

Debs

P.S. Tim - Will definitely be trying the soup it sounds fab.

Re above post.....

Have now sat at computer for 2 hours and haven't done any housework!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Better do some, or washing will be walking downstairs to the machine all by itself!!! . ;D  ;D  ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D

QuoteMy Aunt used to tell a tale of a woman that killed her hubby by bludgeoning him to death with a frozen leg of lamb, then cooked it, and served the evidence to the investigating police officers in sandwich form!..................Hmmmmmmmmmmm   ;D

I remember reading that - Roald Dahl wrote it. I read it in a collection of short stories along with the one about long pig...

"Tales of the Unexpected".

Ten x

Quote from: Debs on January 30, 2004, 13:39:51
Better do some, or washing will be walking downstairs to the machine all by itself!!! . ;D  ;D  ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D

Hmmm! Intelligent washing  ???  Where do you get that ?  ;D

All I can cook is meat (in the oven for 1/2 hour) eg chicken leg, chop and potatoes and boiled veg. I don't need a cook ery book, just ways to liven up what I do already (eg what is marinading meat, what's a white sauce? max preparation time 10 mins.)  :D I can cook a caserole with a oxo cube!

I HATE cooking - everything about it
I WONT do the ironing  - if anyone wants anything ironed i will show them where the iron is - my hubby was in the forces he can iron
life is just to short to stand ironing shirts
i run the hoover around about once a week the washer is on everyday it just gets chucked out onto the line or into the tumble dryer and put away woooooo
dusting gets done if anyone is coming round

as i said life is just to short why do house work

Aha!  :) Have discovered Recipes 4 All  :)

Waggi.  I agree with you on the ironing front.  It suck.  The only thing I ever iron is my scout shirt for rememberence day parade.  All other times I go creased.  I dont mid cooking bu I have to be in the mood.  I'd rather cook stuff than buy it coz shop bought is generally naff.  Unless I'm  shopping at the wrong places.

Jethro sounds like you're  gonna have to learn to cook.  There's nothing else to be done or you'll have to keep eating stuff out of boxes.  The solution is in your hands  ;D