My husband thinks i still live in the 50/60s, :o because i like to cook a fresh hot meal everyday, he thinks it is no longer necessary & that i make to much work for myself. I love cooking ,baking. it is not to much trouble am i being old fashioned opinions appreciated please so i can say told you so, ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D.
well, if you are, so are we, we like our own, home cooked meals, we know what's gone into everything ;D
I'm with you Rosebud and Manics...I'm NOT a fan of ready meals (never buy them). When the boys were at home, I baked everything including the bread.
I think you are sensible, home cooked is far superior to "ready meals", etc. He is possibly being kind (?) in ensuring you know he doesn't expect it. However, I do think it is good to take some "time off" at times, the occasional easier meal will not harm ;D
Exactly Manics, thank you Lauren , so far so good keep em coming girls.
We cook everything from scratch, some meals are more labour intensive than others. We often cook a "night off" by cooking double quantity (chilli, or a ragù) which makes life easier from time to time. We hate ready meals, and can taste the difference between that and home cooked. :P :P :P
If you like baking an things good luck to you, but I would not want my ole lady in the kitchen all the time. She just chucks all the stuff in the slow cooker and we go out for the day. If she doesn't do that we eat out, or bung something in the microwave. Suites me.
All home prepared here! Friday night is whatever my son makes. Sometimes I do a roast which lasts at least half the week in various guises.
Home cooked here as well, although we often cook off the "meat" part and get it out of the freezer on the day... but potatoes and veg from fresh.
:)
Old fashioned is good rosebud, don't be ' swayed ' - was brought up with
the idea that you had to have at least ' one good meal a day ' . My parents
both worked during the day - we had a hot breakfast in the morning, [ hated
that porridge saucepan ] , a 2 course hot school dinner [ fabulous ] and a cooked tea
when mum got home, I regard myself as pretty good in health for my age and will
say I carry on the ' doctrine ' of my parents and apply it to ourselves now.
Carry on -- your family will thank you [ eventually ] :D
floss x
We recently obtained a slow cooker,just a basic one £20 from John Lewis.Makes life a lot easier,especially when I get in from gardening,ready and waiting.
Whoever is in the mood cooks.
Toby up the road doing main meal and a pud for a fiver when neither of us can be bothered. :)
Another old fashioned one here!
I am collecting quite a lot of labels......old fashioned, sad, a seedaholic..........and happy :D
Oh, and the Imelda Marcos of wellies ;D
We make most things, apart from the odd pizza & oven chips when we can't be arsed to cook... it's more about taste than anything else. But we don't spend more than maybe 30 minutes a day prepping & cooking. Normally at least have a side salad even when it is pizza day.
Oh, then there's Fish & Chips - some things should be left to the experts, IMHO.
At the risk of not helping at all, you're not really asking an independent group of people here though!
Rosebud, you can adopt me if you want ;D I wouldn't mind you cooking and baking for me ;D
Neil
i bet if you gave OH a few ready meals he would soon want you back in the kitchen lol.
what about cooking a double portion a few times and freezing half then a home cooked ready meal in the freezer for tea and bingo you get a day off
well i was born in the 70s and I'm a home cook fan, ready meals taste vile in comparison . i generally cook from scratch every day and at least once a week there is left over night, with grab what you can get/ find on Saturdays ;). and i don't see why he's bugging i mean if you enjoy being in the kitchen whats the problem :-\.
You mean there's another way of doing it?
All meals cooked from scratch in our house - and the bread, cakes, jams, chutneys, mincemeat, salt pork, you name it. Used to do beer & wine as well, but getting a bit too old to do all the lifting now!
As long as you enjoy cooking, baking carry on Rosebud. It is the healthiest option to get your food intake and you have control of the fat, salt and sugar etc. I shudder when I look in folks shopping trollys and all I see are Pizzas, crisps and ready meals. No wonder we have trouble with obesity in this country, it is because an awful lot of this generation just do not know how to cook.
I have had 1 month holiday off work and have cooked daily for when the kids get in from school and OH in from work. I prefer cooking stuff as and when I can. Friday night is the weekly exception though..... Chinese takeaway 8)
Microwave meals are for when I am on the hoof or late in from work. A short meal such as beans on toast with grated cheese is so much more appetising than microwave stuff anyday. And takes the same time to prepare and cook........
Keep it up Rosebud, same here........ including home made pizzas Ollie, and you've obviously not discovered beer batter for your fish ;)
The trick was teaching hubby to cook too, so we can share. ;D
Linda
Home cooking here, mostly by the O.H., but we do join in, and even take over occassionally (two or three times per week) ;)
Three Cheers for all the home made meals. I live alone but I still like to prepare and cook all my food and my Sunday roast is the highlight of my week with loads of fresh veggies. I do make use of the freezer though when I make a larger quantity and put away for a rainy day. Casserole, curries and steak and kidney pies are pretty good frozen at home and you know what is in them and no e-numbers or "multyglucoeimitation flavours"
Keep up the good work and enjoy the wonderful taste of a home cooked meal.
with you all the way rosebud and manics,its how i was brought up and how i wish to continue,how else are you gonna use all your home grown veggies!OH has become more and more interested in cooking over the ten years we have been together,so thats great.now im a poor student we dont treat ourselves to delivery indian anymore,but cooked up a mega curry last night in the kitchen last night,so much more fun and a fraction of the cost.
as someone else said,fish and chips have to be from the takeaway,i dont have deep fried capability in our kitchen
i also think homecooked food doesnt have to take too much time,a gorgeous stir fry takes the same time(or less) as going and buying a ready meal,for example,not to mention pasta dishes etc
rach
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home cooked all the way, ready meals are just nasty, but as the others have said you can make your own ready meals and freeze them
lbb
never buy pre packed or ready meals everything home cooked.
also
make own burgers, sausages, mincemeat,pies pasties,bread,pasta, hoping to grow 80% of veg this year, eggs from our own free range hens.
kids 4 girls being taught how to make all the above, they are good they wont eat prepacked anyhow.
mrs getting better at cooking (not being nasty her mum didnt teach her how to do anything, prefering to do it all herself).
Home cooked for us BUT i have students in and they wont eat a nice home cooked meal but give them chicken nuggets, burgers and pizza and the clear the lot !!!!
Both hubby and i are chefs so our food is pretty good and we have tried every kind of food going, at the moment i have 3 Chinese students in and if the meal doesnt have rice they dont eat it :(
My Tony spent most of his young life in the country and lived on a farm. Everything was home made or home reared. His mom was a great cook and I learned so much from her. Now we have the allotment its great cos I only have to think of what meat would go with the veg instead of vice versa. I do like to know what goes into my food so we very rarely eat out except when on holiday. When the kids were little everything they ate was mostly home made. Bread,, Cordial ,Yoghurt , etc. Now they are grown and have kiddies they give them junk food. I do have a nag at em but I don't think they take much notice of me.
I hope you have a big house with lots of room as i think the biggest majority of us men would appreciate a good home cooked meal every day, Enough said i think we are all ready to move in.
I have 4 brothers and 3 sisters and ever since the age of about 4 years old (1960 ) I always remember a home cooked dinner on the table at lunch time, that was after a good breakfast in the morning and a plate full of sandwiches at tea time and once i was allowed to stay up later at night ( after 7 at night at about 9 years old ) we had supper as well. None of us grew up to be obese, it was always good home made cooking from my mother and I look back now and admire her for how she brought such a big family up.
the answer to your question Mary is NO you are not old fashioned.
We are home cooks as well.
We live out in the sticks, apart from a chippie van parking up in the village for two hours on a Wednesday evening, the nearest is about five miles away.
The pubs in the village (all six of them) don't employ chefs, they employ a chief defroster (Brakes ready meals) so going out for a meal is not a treat/option.
I agree with other posters, when you've cooked it yourself you know what has gone into the meal. It is not full of E-numbers.
And of course, there is always that added ingredient TASTE, ;D
valmarg
we're a'ping' free zone all from scratch daily !!!wouldn't have it anyother way ! I work full time just needs a little organisation LOL ;D ;D
And another vote here for home cooking. Even though we both work full time and sometimes don't get home til quite late, it doesn't take that long to rustle up a meal from scratch or, as others have suggested, use something from the freezer from when I have made double just for that purpose. The occasional take away is quite enjoyable but nothing beats a meal that you know exactly what has gone into it (and hopefully grown most of it yourself!)
For me there is nothing to debate here - I wouldn't have it any other way!
I think you can rest your case Rosebud.
Home made beats supermarket E numbers every day of the week. ;D ;D
valmarg
Quote from: lolabelle on January 18, 2009, 17:08:52
we're a'ping' free
Don't knock the microwave. I have just got a microwave bed, a real timesaver. We have just had eight hours sleep in ten minutes ;D
Yep home cooking all of the way here too and its my absolute pleasure to do so, even though both I and hubby work full time and not home until late some evenings, I still enjoy to get a lovely fresh meal on the table, I have had plenty of practice to get it all done in 20-40 mins depending on what prep there is and what we are having.
I even make gravy from scratch which if that ever comes up in discussion so many people don't have a clue ???
I only ever tasted bisto once in my life, it was almost 30 years ago when I was 19 years old and my boyfriends parents invited me around for a Sunday roast, his Mum covered it in Bisto, ugggghhh, I struggled so hard to eat my dinner and the next time I went I had to ask for no gravy ... lol Thats the one time in my life I ever tasted it, never again :-X
Hi ellie 2 cats, are your cats twins ?
lovely pic -- Innocent as they look, bet they are full of mischief !
Well done you for making the effort to eat good wholesome food , despite cooking for one ....
but two very well fed cats ! ;D
floss x
Home cooked for majority of the week here. Only exception is maybe once or twice a week when the kids are allowed sausages or pizza and some chips. I only ever seem to use my microwave to defrost stuff or to zap a quick baked spud if i'm in a rush.