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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?

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MulticolourMophead · 06/09/2020 14:05

I don't do revenge cooking, but then I have a couple of nights per week when I cook for myself for various reasons, and I get all my favourites then.

Mellonsprite · 06/09/2020 14:14

Every now & again I do a dinner called ‘make your own’. It’s when I’m busy so not particularly revenge as such. There are faces of dismay all round, but the kids are older and completely capable of making an omelette or something.
I make my own tin of Heinz tomato soup and dip white bread into it. Bloody lovely.

Rockchic7 · 06/09/2020 14:27

I can’t do revenge meals as bf will literally eat anything. If he’s annoyed me I do revenge work lunches lol. I make myself something really tasty that I can take to work the next day, we work together so when we sit down to have lunch the disappointment on his face when he realises I’ve got a tasty hot meal compared to his pot noodle 😂.

SmudgeButt · 06/09/2020 14:34

If I was going for a revenge dinner it would be anything cooked with large chunks of vegetables and twice as many onions as seems sensible. DH likes things well minced.

But if I wanted real revenge it would be at breakfast. DH thinks some things (like onions) should never be in a breakfast. So the best thing is to have leftovers from a Mexican feast and then in the morning make heuvos rancheros. Fry chopped up wheat tortilla with onions and peppers, mix up some eggs with spices and chillies and tomatoes, add to fried mess and top with cheese. Serve with salsa and guac. Any left over faquita meat can be added with the eggs. NOM!!!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 06/09/2020 16:24

I make my own tin of Heinz tomato soup and dip white bread into it. Bloody lovely.

Food of the gods . . . Heinz tomato soup is my favourite, too.

Craftycorvid · 06/09/2020 16:38

Chilli! I am a chilli head and DH is not. He, however, does a nice line in Passive Aggressive uses of leftovers. Grin

Cassilis · 07/09/2020 12:59

@maddiemookins16mum

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.

oh no why is this revenge dinner! I've just bought meatfree sausages as was going to male a sausage, spinach, tomato pasta bake tonight for the first time!
seayork2020 · 07/09/2020 13:08

I cant even boil eggs without burning them so dh just cooks what I buy- but I have to say i love meatloaf!

Cadent · 07/09/2020 13:10

@seayork2020 how though? You put boiling water in pan, add eggs, and time it for 4 mins or 9 minutes depending on whether you want soft boiled or hard boiled. How can you burn then?

seayork2020 · 07/09/2020 13:18

@cadent I have no idea it was about 10 years ago I remember the look on DH's face though

SchadenfreudePersonified · 08/09/2020 18:08

I have burned boiled eggs - I forgot about them, the pan boiled dry, there was a dreadful stench and I was thinking- "What on earth . . .? Oh sugar! The eggs!"

They had cracked, the pan was - - not the best condition, and when the shells were taken off, the "whites" were brown . . . dark brown . . .

Even our greediest spaniel turned up her nose.

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