To not try DHs soup

[peacefuloptimist]

My DH was quite rude about my cooking yesterday. He is a really fussy eater (he doesnt even like his own mother's cooking). Every other month he suddenly goes off a certain type of food that I cook which he had previously been eating quite happily. This puts me in a predicament because Im suddenly not able to make a dish that I have learnt and perfected because he just wont eat it. Before it was spaghetti bolognaise. Yesterday he declared that he doesnt like rice anymore (well unless I can make him biryani - the cheek!). Anyway after a very heated discussion DH said that he would cook today and he decided to make soup. My DH has no clue how to cook by the way and after glimpsing how he made it (just banging all the vegetables and meat in and leaving it to boil for about 30 mins) I really dont feel like trying it especially since he added lamb to it which I really dont think is cooked properly through. I am still a bit annoyed about his comment yesterday (that I cook the same couple of dishes all the time, this is regardless of the fact that the only thing he knows how to make is fried eggs for breakfast). I have a 4 month old ds and dont have the time (or inclination) to learn new recipes. Normally the few times he does attempt to make dinner I always eat it and am pleasant about it. But today I want to demonstrate my displeasure about what he said yesterday. AIBU to put burgers and chips in the oven for my dinner and boycott his probably poisonous soup.

[TheDoctrineOfSnatch]

...or his dad should have done it, maybe

[peacefuloptimist]

His dad was not around when he was a kid. That is a whole other thread. But maybe he can teach ds when he gets older.

[CastingNasturtiums]

peaceful that sounds good. The way DH and I do it is when we feel like we need to add a few new dishes to our repertoire (blimey that sounds posh), we both have a look for new recipes, usually on the BBC food website, and both take on a couple of new ones each to try. That means when he cooks, he does 'his' dishes, and when I cook I do 'mine'. Then there's no disagreements over how they're cooked and we get lots of variety.

[bigkidsdidit]

Does what food YOU like ever get considered?

[CastingNasturtiums]

Oh and the other benefit of him choosing meals to cook for you both himself is that he can't complain about them and you don't have to feel bad and responsible for his dinners. It doesn't have to be very complicated meals that need 'learning' anyway. Most of the things we make are 'throw together' meals that take less than half an hour.

[TheDoctrineOfSnatch]

I don't think anyone ever really taught me to cook, or my brother.

We both cook far better than my mum, just from following recipes then experimenting.

[CastingNasturtiums]

No, no one ever taught me or DH how to cook. Some things in life you just pick up on your own, don't you? Being able to feed yourself doesn't require lessons. And people blaming mothers for not teaching their sons to cook is really quite irritating.

[PureQuintessence]

Just buy a Jamie Oliver book and follow the recipes, one by one.

[MrsPennyapple]

Same here about learning to cook. My mum once remarked "I don't know where you get your cooking ability, certainly not from me." I left home knowing only how to grill burgers and make chips. (Not even good chips either, I do them differently now :) )