I often wonder why I even try to cook. The other day, Husband went to the grocery store WITHOUT A LIST, picked up all kinds of stuff, came home, and made the most delicious sausage and shrimp Alfredo I have ever eaten in my entire life. While I was slurping it down and consequently licking my plate, I said, "Where did you get that recipe? It was DE-RA-SHUS!"
You know what he said? "I was just sitting there and I thought it up."
That's right. He just thought it up. In his head. Without looking at anything.
When I cook, I have to find a recipe I think I can cook, write down a precise list, read the recipe again before I start cooking, and refer to the recipe at least 53 times while doing the actual preparation. It's a painful, painful process. I've never even CONSIDERED making up my own recipe (except when we were little and we used to make drinks for each other that included dog food and vinegar [among other things] and then tried to think of ways to trick the other person into drinking it).
And yet, Husband apparently doesn't even have to try when he whips up delicious meals from scratch that he just made up at the spur of the moment. Does he have to be good at EVERYTHING??
And you know what else?? He actually ENJOYS cooking (I would rather poke my eyes out with a spoon). So again, I ask, WHY DO I EVEN TRY??
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Don't try. If husband enjoys it that much, just turn over dinner duty to him. You can wash the dishes. That way, you're both happy. :)
The answer is to not try. That's the conclusion I've come to. Just ask Alex. Hehehehehe.
Erin, I so agree with you! While, at the beginning of my marriage, I enjoyed the new endeavor of cooking - now I hate it, resent it, experience guilt over it, and consequently, we eat out a lot - waaaayyy too much. IF only there were a solution! What to do? What to do?
Some people are just like that and there's nothing you can do about it. Some of favorite and best tasting dishes are foods that just happened by accident or out of necessity. Simply relish in the fact that your husband cooks and enjoys doing it. (Then do the dishes!)
Well, I would just leave the cooking to Husband except for the fact that he usually leaves the house at 7:30 am and doesn't get home until 9:30 pm due to work and school. It's probably not fair to expect him to start cooking then (and yes, I did say PROBABLY just in case it actually is fair).
And, I would make the "I'll do the dishes" deal except I hate doing dishes AND Husband uses nearly every bowl in the kitchen when he cooks.
I wouldn't call myself a feminist or anything of the sort but I do resent the fact that cooking/cleaning is still considered "the woman's job". I must have been born in the wrong century...or in the wrong country...or in the wrong mind frame. I want to be outside running around instead of inside doing ANYTHING.
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