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Is this a disgusting meal

54 replies

imgonnaliveforever · 21/04/2011 20:48

DH has served me chunks of chicken breast cooked with onions, mixed herbs, white wine and noney (not white wine and honey sauce, just white wine and honey poured in the pan) with rice.

AIBU to think this is really rubbish?

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washnomore · 21/04/2011 21:23

It sounds horrible but still not as unpleasant as you do.

Hatesponge · 21/04/2011 21:25

I hate the taste/flavour of honey so if it was me, I definitely would have chucked it in favour of toast!

LargeGlassofRed · 21/04/2011 21:26

Dp has never made me a meal, unless you count toast on a couple of occasions YABU.

pigletmania · 21/04/2011 21:26

Yabvu at least your dh made an effort, mine would not.

SkinittingFluffyBunnyBonnets · 21/04/2011 21:29

It sounds bad but I wouldnt care enough to post about it! It's only food fgs.

monkeyjamtart · 21/04/2011 21:29

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ColonelBrandonsBiggestGroupie · 21/04/2011 21:33

YABU - how's he supposed to learn/want to cook more if he just gets told it's 'rubbish' when he does cook?

My dp couldn't cook a thing when I met him - I have taught him. he wouldn't be able to make something up from scratch but he can now follow a recipe and produce edible results (in fact, he even baked a cake today).

You should be grateful he had a go and steer him gently towards a more traditional recipe for next time!

mablemurple · 21/04/2011 21:35

I am Shock at the number of posters that think that cooking a meal is so far out of a man's remit that you should be grateful for any inedible pap that he dishes up. If he knows he is inexperienced in the kitchen, he needs to follow a recipe or ask for advice, otherwise it is a waste of good food. I'd be interested to know if he thought it was lovely?
OP, you are most definitely not BU.

Goblinchild · 21/04/2011 21:37

My DS would have loved it, but we eat a lot of odd meals.
Get him a cook book and stop whinging.

DreamsInBinary · 21/04/2011 21:40

He's an adult! He is more than capable of getting himself a cookbook

I think we can all aspire to meals that have better qualities than simply being devoid of feaces.

Blu · 21/04/2011 21:41

'Disgusting' is way OTT.
A bit haphazard, but as long as it was just a touch of honey, not too bad. He seems to have got a couple of recipes mixed up.

ihatecbeebies · 21/04/2011 21:42

It doesn't sound too nice to me, but I am an awful cook too and DP has given me a few cooking lessons before, I think you need to do the same lol!

Goblinchild · 21/04/2011 21:44

He needs a cookbook if he thought it was delicious and doesn't understand why she's complaining. If he's happy eating his concoctions, then he doesn't need one.

QuickLookBusy · 21/04/2011 21:50

I imagine he was trying to be creative, but wine and honey does sound horrible.

I wouldn't complain as that would seems a bit rude.

ginmakesitallok · 21/04/2011 21:51

YANBU - sounds horrible, and you should tell him or you'll get it every week. Like mablemurple I can't understand posters who think you should be grateful that he cooks you sh*te!

pointydog · 21/04/2011 21:52

What's the issue?

His turn to cook for once and he fannied about in a half-hearted fashion and served up this concoction?

Or, he can't cook for toffee, tried his best and honestly thought this was quite a good effort?

pointydog · 21/04/2011 21:54

If it's the first issue, tell him to buck his ideas up, buy a curry sauce and follow the instrucutions on the jar.

If it's the second, tell him it was ok but coud he just buy a curry sauce next time and follow the instructions on the jar. Please.

JuicyLips · 21/04/2011 21:55

I experimented today, I loved it but DH did not love it at all.

canyou · 21/04/2011 21:55

Honey and white wine sauce with figs is so yummy, so as chicken is sweet it should have worked, but with garlic and ginger and finished under a grill and maybe with couscous and not rice,
I guess it is about personal tastes really

ColonelBrandonsBiggestGroupie · 21/04/2011 21:56

:) at Pointy.

Re: wine and honey - well, the Romans cooked loads of things with wine and honey so it must work in some combinations. Then again, they also ate dormice dipped in honey and rolled in poppyseeds. :)

Trebuchet · 21/04/2011 21:58

Einstein why respond if you couldn't give a shit? Go and clean your bath or something.

If left to cook dh would only do sausage mash and beans which really depressed me 3 days into operation recovery...

ihatecbeebies · 21/04/2011 22:02

trebuchet - Einstein is a troll (I've just learned of the phrase troll lol!),they just started a thread slagging people in council houses too

BeerTricksPotter · 21/04/2011 22:03

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Goblinchild · 21/04/2011 22:09

I was thinking Roman too, ColonelBrandonsBiggestGroupie. Smile
But then what does Apicius know, as opposed to the wisdom of MN?

EttiKetti · 21/04/2011 22:11

Sounds gross but why not offer some guidance? Waste of a night off cooking if its that bad every time!