by d d.

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Daily Freewrite: 9/4/09 : I bow to the man that can cook

September 04, 2009 10:27 AM UTC

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I bow to the Man that can cook

When we were first married, we both worke full time and split all of our chores. Maybe because there was only two of us that I didn't notice tht my husband couldn't cook. After having children, he chose friday's and sundays as the day that he would cook. when it comes down to it, he manages to cook us a meal about four times a year. It's not that he can't cook, Its that he finds using a phone or taking us out, so much easier. when the children were little, he would order out from our local Pizzaria and then on Sundays, we would go out to eat or eat at my sisters. we do a great deal of round robin family style meals.

The thing about his cooking, he actually envisions a delicious meal in his mind. I learned early on not to criticize his cooking as it will end up on my to-do list. infact, I always eat some of it, usually for some reason I am not so hungry. His favorite recipe is chicken parmesan. He takes frozen chicken, boils it, puts jarred sauce on it with cheese, broils it and thinks that it will be edible (frozen chicken boiled turns out very dry and petrified). He also boils green beans and he makes a salad. my kids literally have fear in their eyes, when he happily announces that he is making chicken parmesan. I will continue to praise him as I have learned that I treasure" his days" to cook.

Does your husband or spouse cook? I bow to the man that..

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Comments: 51

kimberly g. Sep 4, 2009, 10:29am UTC

my hubby does most of the cooking and when he is out of town working, we STARVE!
I am starving right now! Lol

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 10:46am UTC

oh, go ahead...brag about your husband....

see, that'll teach you to cook.

Larry H. Sep 4, 2009, 4:07pm UTC

got get some crackers or a couple slices of bread... got some peanut butter, put some on the crackers and bread and eat it.

kimberly g. Sep 4, 2009, 4:21pm UTC

been there done that! Lol!
I love pb and j sandwiches!

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 4:35pm UTC

larry, inspirational... sounds like you've taken lessons at a culinary school. :)

see Kimberly, and you said you were starving.

kimberly g. Sep 4, 2009, 6:03pm UTC

yeah, I am now eating frozen pizzas! Lol!
I want real food!
home made biscuits and gravy!

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 8:08pm UTC

I went out to eat. Met my hsbd at a japanese/chinese restaurant near his office.

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Marsha C. Sep 4, 2009, 10:31am UTC

Steve grills mostly, but has made us other meals as well
He would prefer to go spend $40 eating out, which drives me insane...I could buy 3 or 4 meals at the store for that!

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 10:46am UTC

sounds like my husband.

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Rachel N. Sep 4, 2009, 10:35am UTC

You should suggest a recipe for him...just to try...without telling him that his version isn't edible.

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 10:48am UTC

I would have to make it if it had more than a few steps...and forget the "culinary" words... if I said, "can you saute' the green beans"... I would get "can you do it, you do it so well." So, I hide up in my bedroom, until dinner is ready... otherwise...I end up making the meal.

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☃ Shannon K. Wendt Sep 4, 2009, 10:35am UTC

My fiance cooks a few times a year. He likes to do it like I do: a "little of this and a little of that". Surprisingly, he manages to make decent meals. Usually.

In fact, he invented my fave wing recipe and makes better beef keema than I do.

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 10:51am UTC

ok, aunt shanny... but I saw the word "usually" after decent meals. hmmm.

the wings would be a good help. I think he tried the buffalo wings recipe once. Bought this huge bottle of wing sauce from costco and drowned the wings in them... needless to say, I wasn't that hungry that night, might have been a bug going around. But I thanked him for dinner.

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 10:52am UTC

is the beef keema recipe posted?

☃ Shannon K. Wendt Sep 4, 2009, 10:53am UTC

Yes. It's one of my faves!

Did he fry or bake the wings before drowning them?

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 11:08am UTC

I think he baked them, frying would be too hard..maybe he boiled the "frozen" wings. I stay upstairs while he is cooking. :)

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Len Maxwell Sep 4, 2009, 11:21am UTC

My mother started me cooking when I was about seven and I’ve been cooking since then. Living alone, obviously I cook every day. Well, almost, I’m ordering pizza tonight. If I can entice you with a shameless plug, I wrote an article about cooking in my family.

http://www.purpleslinky.com/Humor/Life/Cooking-in-my-Family.195007

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 12:02pm UTC

Thanks Len, I will read it later on...trying to get my bills paid right now. :)

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flit . Sep 4, 2009, 2:28pm UTC

Ross CAN cook... but I usually do it since he does so many other things that I am really not eager to do - like paint and lay flooring, for example.

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 2:46pm UTC

you are lucky! See, when you are not feeling well..he can cook for you.

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Tara C. Sep 4, 2009, 3:10pm UTC

My hubby and I both cook. We take turns. PIF

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 3:58pm UTC

you are lucky also. it makes it so much easier if both can cook.

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Larry H. Sep 4, 2009, 4:08pm UTC

I do a lot of the cooking here.. pretty good at it too. so I am told.

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 4:31pm UTC

you're a prize Larry.

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Granny Janny Sep 4, 2009, 4:19pm UTC

This is a fun freewrite with a cliff hanger at the end. I really enjoyed it and think it's a great beginning to a publishable essay or story.

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 4:33pm UTC

Thanks Granny Janny, I appreciate the supportive comments. Now how does one go about doing the second part of your comment? where does a person begin?

Granny Janny Sep 4, 2009, 5:12pm UTC

by going back to the piece and expanding it into an essay or a story.

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 5:38pm UTC

once I do that, where do I begin to look for a venue to publish my piece? are there sites that list articles that magazines or websites would like?

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Michelle C. Sep 4, 2009, 4:42pm UTC

don will grill some chicken or hamburger once in awhile. for some reason the chicken takes 45 minutes to cook & he doesn't understand why it's dry & burnt on the outside........hmm; go figure. he does make spaghetti, but i sneak in while the sauce is simmering & add a few touches without him knowing. he makes a mean omellete in the microwave!!! ;)

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 5:05pm UTC

well, he can't be chasin' you around while he's cookin', now can he missy?

oooh, the omelet is interesting...I usually don't use my microwave.

Michelle C. Sep 4, 2009, 5:10pm UTC

not my first choice to cook an omelet.

i have 89 new emails since this morning & don wants to go out to eat!!! i knew i could get him to a restaurant tonight!!! but i have all these emails from cocktail time & squirrel bait......oy!! ;)

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 5:12pm UTC

go out and have fun.

Michelle C. Sep 4, 2009, 7:43pm UTC

came home.....174 emails. most of it is from erinn commenting on other peoples stuff.

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 8:36pm UTC

erinn's been one busy girl. where did you go, what did you eat?

Michelle C. Sep 4, 2009, 9:40pm UTC

heck yes she's been busy....i get 1 email out of the box & 2 more show up from her. i'm not making progress!!

went to the local coney island. i had lemon rice soup & a chef salad. 1/2 the salad came home; it's huge!!!

d d. Sep 4, 2009, 10:13pm UTC

i love greek lemon rice soup. We had a restaurant near our 1st home that had the best. My hsbnd would pick that up if I had the flu.

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Barbara H. Sep 5, 2009, 12:42am UTC

My first "date" with my husband Bill was a phone call during which he was holding the phone between his ear and shoulder (no cell phones in those days) and opening cans of veggies, cutting cabbage and celery and onions and fresh carrots to add to a huge pot of beef vegetable soup he was cooking. (later on I found out the pot was a ten gallon restaurant pot and his recipe served an entire neighborhood for the better part of the winter months!!!!) He tells everybody he taught me how to make soup but little did he know I had been making it for thirty years before I met him. (I am not one to burst someone's bubble so I agreed that his recipe was better than mine)
He is a whiz at stuffed cabbage and is able to create the entire recipe from beginning to end using one roasting pan for the entire process. His lasagna is very Italian even though he is German and he creates a bacon, egg, cheese, tomatoe, lettuce and mayo sandwich on buttered toast that most people would die for.
He does a wonderful medium rare steak and can throw a green salad together in just a little time.
There is only one thing the matter with his cooking though; he makes enough for an army and as a result we either have to invite strangers off the street to help eat it all or package it up in care packages and deliver it to all our kids orrrrrrrrrrrr.....eat the same leftovers for a month.

d d. Sep 5, 2009, 8:01am UTC

Bill's a girls' dream and he must have been the head cook in the army in a previous life. :)

My hsbnd does make a better tunafish sandwich than I do. It's the way he mashes the tunafish to fine pieces, instead of the huge chunks that I have in mine. It's all about the power in the mashing.

Barbara H. Sep 5, 2009, 12:21pm UTC

Bill was never in the Army but had an "Army" of his own in the six kids he was raising as a single father. When I came upon him his wife had left after twenty five years (and the six kids) actually when I came on the scene he had been the single father for twelve years so he had life down "pat" when I disrupted him and his regular routine. I'm still finding new things about him each day and we just celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary.

d d. Sep 5, 2009, 12:35pm UTC

that is so sweet ... all of it. 1) your 17th anniversary. 2) he was there for his children (6 of them) 3) taking care of them for 12 years by himself.

give bill a hug from me. :)

Barbara H. Sep 5, 2009, 12:45pm UTC

Yep he did! I will give him a hug for you. He loves hugs.

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Jane C. Sep 9, 2009, 3:23pm UTC

d.d.: I'd be interested in learning more about the 'Daily Freewrites" I see here on Gather.

d d. Sep 9, 2009, 4:51pm UTC

join the freewrites group and the friday freewrites group. if you can't find it, I will search it later on today for you.

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Jan S. Sep 10, 2009, 1:43am UTC

My husband's mother taught all three of her sons to cook, sew and iron. She was sure they'd need these skills at some point and they did. My husband cooks eggs better than I.
His mom overcooked everything, so I've had to give him some remedial cooking lessons.

d d. Sep 10, 2009, 7:50am UTC

I tried to do that by establishing a once a month you design your own dinner, I'll buy the ingredients and help you cook.... that faded quickly. then as they were teens, they did learn a few things..mac and cheese from a box, ramen noodles, pizza from a box. The george forman, brought them into another new realm of cooking. All of the boys in my highschool had to go through home ec. as we had to take wood working. They are all better for it.

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Alison H. Sep 12, 2009, 6:12am UTC

My hubby used to cook professionally, and taught me his tricks early on. I have tended to do most of the cooking over the years, since I was a stay-at-home mom (funny term as we were out and about so much!) but at holiday times I turn it over to him and just assist. I love not having that responsibility!

Alison H. Sep 12, 2009, 6:15am UTC

Two of our three boys cook for themselves and sometimes us. They got real good at nachos and similar things early on, and both have worked in restaurants.

d d. Sep 15, 2009, 5:00pm UTC

you're so lucky. This weekend I was in calif. visiting my sister. My son told me that they ate out every meal. He said that I didn't leave them anything. I told him that dad knows how to go to the grocery store and cook?!. He replied "dad, cook?"..ummm, we were fine eating out."

Alison H. Sep 15, 2009, 5:11pm UTC

I started them out making their own nachos as an after-school healthy snack/meal, being quick and easy. I kept refried beans, cheese, salsa and corn chips on hand. Tortillas too, for quesadillas, and sometimes avocadoes for guacamole. One son prides himself on making the best guacamole. I just wish they were as good at cleaning up, lol! Well, they are improving....