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Revenge dinner!

86 replies

Yarboosucks · 04/09/2020 19:25

I cook dinner every night. Never the same meal twice in a week, cook different world cuisines.

No one other than me likes meatloaf. I love it. I have made meatloaf tonight and there is an air of general disappointment in the house.

IABU to think, great all the more for me!! ?

Does anyone else cook revenge meals, if so what?

OP posts:
IndieTara · 04/09/2020 20:14

I've never had meatloaf but would love to have a go at it. Does anyone have a recipe without any type of pork in it?

Beesknees11 · 04/09/2020 20:17

Id just cook that for me but make others something even if its a chuck in the oven dinner or pesto pasta

VerbenaGirl · 04/09/2020 20:21

Yes! Cottage pie with baked beans in it. This horrifies the rest of my family, but just sometime I feel like I deserve it and sod them!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/09/2020 20:27

@NeutralJanet

I don't do revenge dinners but I do plate myself up the nicest looking bits and leave DH with the inferior ones if he has annoyed me.
This is me, too - and I make sure that my plate obviously looks more succulent.
MulticolourMophead · 04/09/2020 20:27

[quote Tartyflette]Try this Marcella Hazan recipe next time. It is wonderful and can also be made with a mixture of minced beef and pork.
If your family don't like it they are savages and beyond redemption.
theweatheredgreytable.com/2018/09/29/marcellas-tuscan-meatloaf-with-wild-mushrooms/[/quote]
This has mushrooms, so I can't use this recipe. I love mushrooms, but sadly DD can't eat them as she reacts badly. I think intolerance rather than allergy, but she wasn't well for a while.

Tartyflette · 04/09/2020 20:27

@IndieTara Lots of meatloaf recipes just contain beef, while others such as Italian ones, have pancetta in, which you could just leave out, perhaps add a little more seasoning as pancetta is usually a bit salty.
Or perhaps try this?
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/healthy-turkish-meatloaf

FreeButtonBee · 04/09/2020 20:28

All my favourites are also loved by my husband. Other than eggs. And boiled eggs are not really a very good revenge meal!

If I am too pissed off to cook I just eat toast. But DH is such a gentle soul, he will just have bread and cheese and a tomato and be content. It’s like kicking a puppy.

With the kids (all under 8) if they annoy me I plan lots of potato based meals - mash/shepherd pie. They don’t hate it but it’s not their favourite.

Tartyflette · 04/09/2020 20:32

This one just has beef and looks really quick and easy (and no mushrooms either, Mophead*!

Tartyflette · 04/09/2020 20:33

Sorry, that should say MulticolourMophead

GrouchyKiwi · 04/09/2020 20:34

My mother was extremely good at revenge dinners. If my father pissed her off it was fish pie for dinner (I bloody love fish pie); if my big brother was a prat then she'd cook a fried cabbage, rice and bacon dish she called salmi (I think my grandparents ate it on a ship while emigrating and it became a family dish). I wasn't so fond of that.

DH likes all my cooking (or is wise enough to pretend he does) so if I'm out for revenge I too have to serve myself the best bits.

Oysterbabe · 04/09/2020 20:36

I always ask for DH's input on what to cook and he always says he doesn't mind. It drives me up the wall. I will occasionally cook stuff I know he doesn't like as some kind of petty revenge.

WhereToCut · 04/09/2020 20:37

@Yarboosucks

I cook dinner every night. Never the same meal twice in a week, cook different world cuisines.

No one other than me likes meatloaf. I love it. I have made meatloaf tonight and there is an air of general disappointment in the house.

IABU to think, great all the more for me!! ?

Does anyone else cook revenge meals, if so what?

I love meatloaf. None of mine do. I'll come over and eat with you making suitably appreciative noises.
bogoffmda · 04/09/2020 20:59

fried liver and onions - I love they hate!

KetoPenguin · 04/09/2020 21:02

Was it Shirley Valentine who made a dogfood pie?

Namechangearoo · 04/09/2020 21:05

Mine is moussaka. I love everything about it and DH dislikes almost every element. But he can make himself eggs on toast instead if he wants to.

IndieTara · 04/09/2020 21:06

@Tartyflette thank you that recipe looks delicious

honeyrider · 04/09/2020 21:16

Whenever my mother was pissed off with my father she'd cook chicken for dinner every day for at least a week, my father wasn't keen on chicken.

maddiemookins16mum · 04/09/2020 21:17

Sausage pasta bake is my go to ‘revenge dinner’.
I once saw a brief exchange of glances between DP and DD as I plonked it on the table.
They.Never.Said.A.Word.

This was the night we’d got back from holiday and DD and DP had ‘lost’ their boarding passes after we’d gone into the departure lounge causing 45 minutes of grief and trying to find them.

User34056 · 04/09/2020 21:24

Cottage pie for me. I love it, DH hates it!

WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat · 04/09/2020 21:24

Boiled rabbit?

Bowerbird5 · 04/09/2020 21:32

I love your post 💕 Yarboosucks.

Revenge Dinner🤣😂🤣

I love meatloaf DH doesn’t. I will make it next time he annoys me🤣

It reminds me of a holiday at a friends ‘other’ house ( her husband moved for work reasons so the whole family were uprooted to live near us) when we arrived after driving from the north of Scotland to the south of Scotland. After depositing children in various bedrooms we set about making a meatloaf for tea. We put onions, peppers, pork mince and beef mince, herbs and various other ingredients and it was met with lots of praise. Only we had just added what we had and what we thought would be good and hadn’t measured or written anything down so when we got back home to the village a fortnight later neither of us could remember everything. It was a triumphant one off! 😂

My children have all grown up now but I think I might just make that next week. Thank you for reminding me how delicious it can be.

Another person in the village gave me some advice.

When you make the dinner do you always give the best chop etc to your husband then the children then have what’s left?
Yep that was me.

She said one day she put the best bits on her plate and no one noticed so the advice was ...mums should sometimes have the best bits because we deserve it especially if we slaved over the stove for hours making it.
So I take have taken her advice now and then.😁

billy1966 · 04/09/2020 21:35

I am going to give Meat loaf another go.

I served it years ago and the reaction was sheer disbelief at the "roadkill on a plate".🤣

As they are usually very positive, it was a shocker.

LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow · 04/09/2020 21:35

@OhTheRoses

Our Swedish au-pairs used to make meatloaf. It was delish but needed a new dropping number of ingredients.

They also made a beef mince flan on a pastry base that was awesome and that I've never managed to replicate. Anyone got ideas. It was sooo delish.

is it Swedish Mexican Pie?
SerenityFlowers · 04/09/2020 21:37

Meatloaf recipe I use is 500g lean minced beef, 2 eggs, 3 slices of breadcrumbs, 1 tsp mixed herbs, 2 tablespoons Worcester sauce plus salt/pepper. 1 hour in oven dish at 180 fan with foil on for first half hour then take off. My mum's recipe from the 1970s and still going strong!

Sparklfairy · 04/09/2020 21:39

Bit extreme and not quite the same but in my early 20s I cooked for my arse of an abusive boyfriend. We both liked spicy food but he was fiercely competitive as well as misogynistic and would refuse to be 'beaten' by a girl in the spicy food stakes. I embraced this and made his jerk pork wraps extra spicy without him knowing.

He spent the night shitting himself a new arsehole.

Does that count as a revenge dinner? Smile