I asked DH to cook Sunday lunch this weekend. He blanched, but when I pointed out that the DCs were doing breakfasts, I had done Friday evening, Saturday lunch and evening, and Sunday evening, he manned up.
It was a roast. What could be easier? It's all peeling and chopping. So this is what happened.
Roast lamb - I would have cooked this with slivers of garlic, plenty of rosemary, salt, black pepper and red wine, and served it pink and juicy and delicious. We got dry and overcooked lamb. No extras. You try overcooking lamb until it is dry. It is not good. In fact it is pretty hard to overcook lamb until it is inedible. DH, however, succeeded.
Roast potatoes - Roasties are simples. You boil some potatoes, drain and slather them in goose fat (we have jars of the stuff) and salt and black pepper. Never leave them in for longer than an hour. DH presented us with roasties that had been carbonised. I have never tasted such things. Imagine something black on the outside, and the inside had shrivelled and detached from the outside. Little buttons of burned stuff.
Gravy - he presented us with bisto granules. I have binned this stuff since I saw it creeping into the cupboard. They are nonsense. Nasty and artificial and somewhat sinister. And lumpy.
Vegetables - I don't even want to tell you about the vegetable abuse. You would call vegetable social services. In any event, they were so soggy that they were almost liquified. You try presenting liquified carrots and parsnips. It takes a real man to liquify a parsnip without electrical assistance.
Yorkshire puddings - purists amongst you will have noticed that the roast in question was lamb. Yorkshire puddings are served with beef. DH is from Yorkshire therefore feels that no meal is complete without a Yorkshire Pudding. Despite his undoubted Yorkshire heritage, DH managed to serve black nuggets. Black nuggets are never ever going to catch on. I understand now why the smoke alarm kept going off repeatedly.
He is doing this deliberately, isn't he?
AIBU?
Is he doing this deliberately?
Wuldric · 23/10/2013 00:54
Blimey I'm amazed at the flaming the OPs getting.
It's not being superior, fussy or overly critical to expect an edible meal. As for those saying she should have done it herself 
. So if she wants to eat and her dc to eat she should prepare every meal?
She has already stated her dh can cook so she asked him to do something that he should have been capable of doing, she wasn't setting him up for a fail so she could come on here and bitch about him.
And a roast is an easy meal to make, it's not about balancing flavours or tricky cooking techniques. It's about timings, and even if you get that wrong and the meat is ready while your still chopping veggies who cares, just take it out the oven and wait, don't leave it in to ruin.
OP YANBU, definitely keep on getting him to do it again until he gets it right.
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Ode to op's dh:
I burned a roast and made it black.
Wuldric mn'd behind my back.
I tried really hard, its such a shame,
I am still on level 3 of iPad game 
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