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How oh how can I tell Mr Inferior in a kind tactful and above all EFFECTIVE way that his culinary repetoire is deeply limited? Tell me that, eh?

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motherinferior · 13/07/2006 20:25

I fully concede that I tend to cook the same things a lot. But DP - who only learned to cook about six years ago after taking up with me, in any case - currently cooks about two things in the week. Nigel Slater's chicken supper thing (somewhat neutered by DP's preference for skinned chicken breasts) and spaghetti bolognese which he learned from his mate Tory Ben. I have sort of tried sort of tactfully (by my standards) to ask could we not have the chicken thing every time he cooks. Hence the revisitation of Tory Ben's spag bol. Oh, and sometimes, to be fair, he does do some sort of pasta sauce variant. But it's deeply limited. Especially as DP has Prejudices against various foodstuffs including risotto. And cous-cous. And given my limitations in the areas of Tact and indeed of Relationships, please can you give me some suggestions for nudging him into a wide variety of gastronomic experimentations? Because quite seriously, it is beginning to get me down.

Oh and while you're about it how can I get him to cook more of our fresh veg delivery?

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bundle · 27/07/2006 14:07

oh i love donna hay. i do all our cooking but I like it that way...dh needs directions just to boil an egg and nothing is ever ready at the same time when he cooks

krabbiepatty · 28/07/2006 08:30

I could cry with envy , mi, Mr Patty probably would cook me meals, I just wouldn't be able to eat them....

fennel · 29/07/2006 21:42

you have little to complain about. yesterday DP presented me with a meal he'd cooked (to be fair we were camping and out of all decent food): Smash. baked beans. fried egg. fried onion and pepper.

in ungrateful mood I rejected the lot and stormed off to find decent food. he actually thought I'd be pleased with this gross offering.

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