Does DH have weird ideas about cooking?

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I Love dh I really do but when he says he's going to 'suprise' me by making tea I have cold sweats, but rather than hurt his feelings or take over I just let him get on with it.
Tonights concuction: (FOR ME) fried egg and beans on hot cross bun!
previously I've had gamon with pasta and rice with bolognase sauce and peas.
I'm suffering with the flu at the moment so I suppose if it wasn't for him I would be eating at all.

Exactly mrskitty !
I could make what I consider to be a lovely meal and xh would bastardise it with some delicious additions.

Example - I served up a delicious cottage pie, his portion emerged from the kitchen topped with pickled beetroot and prawn cocktail sauce.

But nobody would be smiling indulgently and swapping cute stories about women giving their family crap meals....

Seeker why not? My homemade ravioli ( floury mush and filling dissolved in boiling water) was hardly a triumph!

My blue cheesecake didn't go down well either.

Oh and the savoury quiche I so lovingly prepared with a ready made sweet pastry flan case... I could go on.

Fondle err. :o

Seeker, I like the way we divide up the jobs. Good job your aren't me because I don't think you and dh would get along awfully well.

Hey - could I do wifeswap with Seeker

Ooh, I've got an M&S book of cheesecakes from the 70s - there's avocado and a salmon one from memory - will check it for a blue cheese one.

You have never eaten my toad in the road (poorly executed Yorkshire pudding, with over cooked sausage)

xx

Oh no not blue cheese, it was blue food colouring that I put in by accident, I don't think it's going to be in any cookbooks.

Yummy how do people make toad in the hole. I made one- risen and burnt in parts and uncooked and soggy in others. :(

And it's for exactly this reason that my DP sticks to one ingredient only now and has earned himself the title "Mr Mince!"

Roasting tin, hot fat (preferably lard), put in sausages until they are light brown - I use about 10 - must be really good quality.

Batter: 3 eggs, self raising flour (about 8oz), salt, pepper, pinch of mixed herbs, milk about 1/2 - 2/3 pint - half a cup of sparkling water (needs to be about the consistency of emulsion).

batter goes into the roasting tin (has to be hot enought to sizzle as it goes in). Takes about 45 - 50 minutes.

serve with baked beans and fried onions.

I and DH are quite adventurous in the kitchen... Maybe travelling does that to you but if a staple diet in norway is jam & oven baked brie then i guess you try everything once before you judge it?

To be fair if a full english contains egg, bean and toast; what is wrong with swapping the toast with a sweet bun? you never know if it goes together till you've tried it...

I would really hate having the same taste of beans on toast every time I had beans on toast... something would have to change in the recipe.

FGS all of you, hire a proper cook.

DH is the complete opposite. He is an excellent cook (though his meals take ages and use every utensil in the kitchen etc) but follows recipes to the letter. I once came home to find him using a ruler to measure the right sized dice of butternut squash.

Oh the odd food combinations are a sauce of much debate in this house.

DP (who is not from the UK) thinks it odd not to eat peas with mustard. And that curried leeks are a staple

On the other hand he thinks mint sauce is just bonkers. As are baked beans at breakfast time

Oh and just to add, he's a briliant cook :) so far this week he has made me paella and roast lamb without mince sauce

a sauce of much debate

No pun intended? :o

Eeewww!

I'm lucky my DP is a fantastic cook so I nearly always make him cook when he's here, downside is he takes forever and makes about 3x more mess than is necessary.

It's bit about dividing up the jobs or one partner liking cooking. That's fine- if you like doing the cooking, then do it. It's this assumption thar men are somehow incapable of cooking - or ar least if cooking without a huge mess- and there's nothing they can do about it. Adult men can look after their families.

Oh God I'm the kitchen disaster in this partnership! Please don't kick me off Mumsnet, I LIKE IT HERE!! I use those steam bag microwave vegs things and can cook meat. That's about it, all my meals for DS are meat of some sort with some potato based stuff mash or roasties or boiled, with loads of veg. I'm a slave to my steamer. I can manage a bit of fish (if done in the steamer) and Spag Bol and eggs. My partner is the one who can cook, he takes the metal edged plates out of the microwave, pre-heats ovens and stops me burning house down.

Before DS my mother fed me or I lived on toast. I refused to learn from her as I was never going to have kids and liked toast. Wish I'd listened now.

If I was ill I would go nuts if my DH was so incompetent at life that he would serve fried egg and a hot cross bun.

I would not find it endearing at all. I certainly wouldn't eat it to spare his feelings. I would ask him to turn his mental switch to 'normal' and cook me something edible.

married thank you! :o