What can me and DH eat together?

[KitKat1985]

So me and DH are quite unusual if terms of her compatibility with eating habits - I'm a vegetarian and he isn't (indeed, he very much likes his meat and fish and isn't very keen on eating meat substitutes). DH however absolutely hates cheese - every variety, and won't eat anything with cheese in it or on it. He's also not very keen on a lot of vegetables, and would turn his nose up and beans / lentils etc. You can see how this rules out a lot of veggie meals!

So what tends to happen at meal times is I make a veggie and a meat version of everything (so for example last night I made two toad in the holes - one with 'real' sausages and one with veggie ones, or a meat curry and a veggie one, or a beef and veggie version of Bolognese etc). Whilst it's not a problem per se it does mean we are forever cooking two lots of everything and doing double washing up.

Just once in a while it would be nice to cook something veggie that he would eat too. I do once in a while do omelettes but am otherwise stuck! Any ideas?!?

Gastropod, the key word there is "doesn't" Not "can't"

He'd say he can't but I know that someone as intelligent as him could do it if he had to. Nice gastronomic variant on my name there, btw!

Oops, sorry! Autocorrect obviously has a sophisticated palate!

Agreed Bertrand however these posts are always a little one sided. It might be he doesn't cook but does all the ironing (I get collared for the ironing as well - think I'm doing something wrong!) or school runs or whatever. It's only a problem if one partner is genuinely doing nothing.

By the way. Lime marmalade chicken with wedges tonight!

As I said. "Doesn't" can be fine.

"Can't" = poor excuse for a man. Or woman.

I don't think can't is a poor excuse for a man/woman. I think won't is worse. My dp tries very hard to cook and yet is still useless- he takes his eye off the ball to do something else, or misses out ingredients or adds extras. He pinches salt in a fist, thinks a tbsp is a tsp despite being corrected many times, and doesn't believe that cooking something more reduces the liquid front. However he WILL give it a good go! Usually he is in charge of pouring the wine and playing peppa pig land though. I can't do that- dd2 tells me so

Mine can cook but I'd rather eat my cooking than his so I do it. He does other stuff.

TheImprobableGirl- would he be incabable of following simple instructions at work? Would he regularly put petrol instead of diesel in the car because he took his eye off the ball? Or is it just cooking that having a penis makes him useless at?

Batch cooking: yep, take food out night before and pop in fridge. Reheat - if I'm reheating, say, a pasta sauce then I'll reheat it on the hob as I'm standing there cooking the pasta anyway, or reheat in the micro.

Or is it just cooking that having a penis makes him useless at?

Well that told us!

I was responding to a particular post.

Ahh thank you for explaining batch cooking. That could be really helpful if we're having an evening where time / energy is short.

On the other stuff, as I've said I enjoy cooking and DH doesn't, and frankly isn't very good when he does try - his last effort was practically inedible (although I ate it anyway as he had tried really hard and I felt rather sorry for him!), so I don't mind doing the vast majority of the cooking. And he helps out in many other ways (as I say he does all the ironing for example because it's a job I particularly hate). Just because we don't cook 50/50 doesn't mean he does nothing around the house! We have different strengths and weaknesses as a couple and balance each other out well by helping the other one out on the things we aren't so good at!

I agree too, Chipmunk. My husband doesn't cook because he really isn't interested in food. It's not quite food = fuel for him, but not far off. He has no interest in the ingredients, the processes or the subtle differences from using a slightly different balance of seasoning, herbs, spices or a different way of preparing a key ingredient, etc etc. I do.

Additionally, he really dislikes having to deal with raw meat/fish or anything with bones/shells, either as a cook or as a diner. I'm sure if he had no alternative he would get over it, but as things stand he has many other options, one of which is an amicable agreement with me that as I have no such squeamishness I will do it. Meanwhile we also have an agreement that when the upstairs loo blocks (which it does, often) he will deal with it. I think I get much, much the better deal.

No, Bertrand... having a penis is neither here nor there really. But my dp is more a personality than defined by his penis. I do hope there is nothing that you are inept at- whether it is due to your vagina getting in the way or otherwise

You say he turns his nose up at beans, but this bean chilli recipe is really good. Especially smothered in sour cream (and cheese but not for your OH)

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