to be a bit pissed off at discovering (after 20 years) that DH can cook?

[grovel]

I've just ad an operation. My DH has had to look after me. I thought he could only cook scrambled eggs and fish fingers.
Well, he has made me delicious meals for a week - all from scratch. He doesn't appear to need cookery books. He even washes up pans etc as he goes along. He's a better cook than me.
I'm a SAHM. He has incredibly demanding work commitments. I've been happy to be the cook. He's pretty good about helping out with other stuff when his work allows. I just can't work out how this skill of his has been hidden from me.

very annoying post

I just can't work out how this skill of his has been hidden from me.

were you born knowing how to cook?

if you fell under a bus, would he just sit there and starve to death?

Well he's got 20years of catching up to do then hasn't he?

My DH can cook and im havig a mad panic trying to learn before mat leave lol

zookeeper, sorry to have annoyed you.
BuenTiempo, I assumed that if I fell under a bus he would live on ready-prepared meals. Certainly I did not think he would cook fish pie, rack of lamb, kedgeree etc from scratch.

Perhaps he's got a second wife secreted somewhere and she has made him do the cooking

And washed the pans?

Sorry grovel - glad you didn't suffer bad food during your convalescence, but your post may well have eyes rolling. Of course his ability was hidden if it is your opinion that it is remarkable that men wash pans, or cook 'from scratch'. Why are you pissed off? If you assumed he couldn't and got on with it so as not to give the poor love any difficulties you have only yourself to blame.
It sounds patronising to talk of him in this way.

Has he really never cooked for that long? Even on weekends or holidays?
I know what it is. He must watch Masterchef!

Is he a bit bored of your house? He can pop over here any time and take over. Kedgeree sounds good, lamb sounds good too.

Maybe it was a case of pretending to cook badly to get out of making dinner every night

Blimey, those aren't beginners recipes!
All my DH cooks is overdone fried eggs, fish fingers and pizza :(

All men can cook.

They only pretend not to, so that women will do it.

Haha, my dh was off when I had surgery 15 months ago. In the morning, I told him how to slow cook the stew for tea. At 4pm I asked what was with the stew and you could see it dawning on him that it doesn't magically appear in the slow cooker. Cue a race to Tesco for potatoes and veg.