Who is the chef in your house?

[TEA Time]

Mark it on your calendars, my wife cooked dinner last night. I had to take my son to basketball and the dog to the groomer (simultaneously) so she said she'd handle dinner.

It was a lovely spread! The fancy "rolls" complimented the all-beef hot dogs wonderfully. She also prepared an exquisite shells and cheese side dish that dazzled the palette, courtesy of the college life-sustaining chefs at Kraft. Not to be outdone by those culinary triumphs, the delectable helping of green beans that emerged from a tin can were just phenomenal.



Sigh....

 

[TEA Time]

Update: my wife made a side dish for Thanksgiving. Since she was making half as much as the recipe called for, she was cutting everything in half. Suddenly she asked me if half of 1/4 tsp = 1/2 tsp. I said half of 1/4 was 1/8. Too late… she had dumped 1/2 tsp of cayenne into the mix.

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

Update: my wife made a side dish for Thanksgiving. Since she was making half as much as the recipe called for, she was cutting everything in half. Suddenly she asked me if half of 1/4 tsp = 1/2 tsp. I said half of 1/4 was 1/8. Too late… she had dumped 1/2 tsp of cayenne into the mix.

Spicy, did it turn out???

 

[eclark53520]

What is it with women and fractions?

My wife asks me every time she's cutting or doubling a recipe how to add/subtract fractions...good lord woman didn't you pay attention in third grade?

 

[TEA Time]

Spicy, did it turn out???

I like it spicy, so I was okay with it. The kids, however....

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

I like it spicy, so I was okay with it. The kids, however....

That's what she said.

 

[MCDavis]

She may not be the chef in the house, but every time I'm with her eclark's wife really cooks!!

 

[eclark53520]

She may not be the chef in the house, but every time I'm with her eclark's wife really cooks!!

You should see the yoga pants she's in today...

Might have to put the boy down for a nap and rock the headboard.

 

[BoarderDave]

I guess I am pretty lucky. We share a lot of the cooking, I do all the grilling. My wife can bake and make a damn good meal, so can i.

I'm in the same boat here. We share the cooking.. I mostly handle any meat cooking. My wife has this whole thing with touching raw meat. She braved it once to make this awesome chicken breast meal this one night for me early on in the marriage.. she couldnt even LOOK at chicken for the next month or so after. Not even if I cooked it and did everything. She wouldn't even eat it.

So now, since I like meat too much to for-go it.. I make sure and handle all of that. She handles all of the baking, desserts, side dishes..
I handle the main part.

It helps to have both of us that can and do handle meals. Easier to spread out the work of it so not one person is burdened with it every day.

 

[eclark53520]

MMMMMMM MEAT

I can't forgo the meat either....I like it even more if I was the one that killed/dressed/skinned/butchered the animal. My wife will take over once the quartering of the animal is done...before that, she's not to keen on helping. Definitely no field dressing for her.

Honestly, that's the easiest part of the whole process. Dirty, but easy.