How often do you guys cook?

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Just wondering, in honesty I've been terrible at taking my share of the cooking but over the last couple of months have made a point of doing the cooking on a saturday night. Really annoys the wife though as I'll find a recipe then add or take out bits depending how I feel. ;)

On the menu tonight is Spicy coconut chicken :stir:
 
Daily. Except Friday - I don't do Fridays. Wife's work is such that I'm home first so that's it.
 
Let the wife do it. When I have to cook it's strictly survival cooking. It's no part of a guys' job to do that sort of stuff. Car cleaning, gardening, putting up shelves, locking up at night and playng with new camera gear is quite enough for a chap to have to deal with. :whistling
 
Everyday, I enjoy it (as long as I don't have to peel spuds!)
 
dod said:
Really annoys the wife though as I'll find a recipe then add or take out bits depending how I feel. ;)

On the menu tonight is Spicy coconut chicken :stir:

Could be interesting if you take out the chicken this time ;)

My wife loves cooking & is darn good at it....so I do all the DIY (incl decorating) in the house as compensation
 
I cook every day.
But then it's my job to, I'm a kept man.
I mean house-husband.

I do the kids and house thing, while my wife works, and I will admit I'm as happy as a pig in sh**.

Love cooking too. (Which is borne from a love of food :D).
That, coupled with a kickstart to reduce my 22stone frame of August 04, with healthy eating, I took on a more cookery role, and now cook most family meals...healthily :D
 
Marcel said:
I do the kids and house thing, while my wife works, and I will admit I'm as happy as a pig in sh**.
Haha, let's swop recipes :D Must admit I enjoy the cooking as well, because I'm only doing it once a week it tends to be something a bit different from the usual routine too :)
 
1 pig, 1 ounce of sh**.
Big spoon.

Stir.

Oh, you were talking about ....ahh gotcha. :D
 
i cook for myself as i work till 6 and the wife works evenings, so i cook for myself, but then i trained as a chef at college so its no hardship, though i did hate working as a chef
 
i used to cook nearly everyday, but unfortunately the mrs has to move 50 miles away for work so i cook for the housemates every night and her on the weekends :)

another big cooking fan here :D
 
Mine is far too good so I do not try and compete with her :D

Take-away tonight though! and I'm paying :eyesup:
 
I like cooking and can usually cobble something reasonable together that is different to chips and egg but the mrs is a fantastic cook and loves cooking as well. Due to that it would be a waste if she wasnt allowed free reign in her kitchen. I usually help out and also do the dishes afterwards. Its just the way we like it. :)
 
The wife does most of our cooking then at weekends I usually take her out for a meal elsewhere and let her have a rest from it.

Other than that I can make good use of our microwave whenever I get hungry through the week.. :beer:
 
Well, the ungrateful mare :p Announced what we were having and she said she didn't want it as we're going out for an Indial tomorrow night.

Okay, plan B is baked chicken with Garlic and parmesan in a cream/wine sauce. Nope, don't fancy the parmesan.

We had chicken and chips :eyesup:
 
parmesan is just wrong. anything that smells of vomit when warmed is bad....
 
Well, don't live with kell (long story) but cook for her often. She is a beautiful, lovely person whom I love very much. But she can't cook for :censored: I live in dread of the days when she says 'do you want to eat at my house tonight' Usually means frozen pizza and chips or over-done steak. :shudders:

Bless her.

Me, I love cooking. Would hate to be a chef even though all my mates say I should be. I'm just not enough of a :censored:

Besides, 15 odd years as a master baker was long enough in the food trade!
 
gandhi said:
Me, I love cooking. Would hate to be a chef even though all my mates say I should be. I'm just not enough of a :censored

I'm the same, I would like to do it professionally, but wouldn't, if that makes sense.
Too high pressured and stressful for me, I don't like anything like that, and I'm not a shouty confident type by nature anyway..lol



BTW Parmesan is lovely, try the fresh stuff, not the dried stuff in a tub. The dried stuff stinks of sick, fresh parmesan doesnt, it's lovely. I only just found out the difference a couple of months ago after steering clear of it for years because of the sicky smell.
 
ive got a huge hurdle to get over for parmassan, yuck X100
 
Parmesan should be grated fresh onto your food - that ready-made stuff is like toe-cheese.
I do lots of curries and chillis, anything involving chopped chicken in various sauces and fat-boy fry-ups as the Mrs can't stand the smell of meat cooking in a frying pan. Also means I get a decent bit of black pudding.

And now that I'm soon to be single again, I'll be doing even more :)
 
I do a lot of our cooking apart from Sunday lunch...timing is not my strong point. Would love to make a decent chili as mine always turns out crap. I make pretty good stews, broths and curries but can't for the life of me make a good yorkshire pudding, failing miserably at the mixing stage....same with pancakes.
 
my pancakes are awesome - got the recipe from cousins in the US, so they come out like IHOP pancakes....
 
commute to london work 12 hours a day and still come home and cook for the family
trouble is i do shifts so they get it when i get up.
good tip here guys, never say "if my dinner anit ready when i finsh work you might as well bugger off and i'll do it"
 
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