What's for tea tonight? (#8)

[8115]

I've just moved in with some new people and one of them "helps" me in the kitchen if we cook together. I've started to realise that the level of rage I feel whenever she so much as lays a finger on something I'm cooking, may be a reflection on me as well as her

 

[BoatieBird]

BoatieBloke once cooked me dinner on valentine's day and in an effort to stop myself interfering in the cooking process I sat on the sofa and drank loads of wine so was really very pissed by the time he served it up
I wonder why he's never done it again

 

[8115]

I didn't used to be this bad. I'm pretty good if someone else is cooking, I just ask "what can I do", and otherwise stay out of the way. It's only when I'm cooking that it becomes a military operation.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Yes Tits....it's the gung-ho chopping and stirring that most irritate me, I reckon ......I have to keep reminding him that everything needs to be done slowly and carefully in the kitchen or he does that really annoying thing of sloshing all the food out of the pan when he's 'stirring' (while I'm going 'HOW IS IT NOT OBVIOUS TO YOU THAT YOU NEED TO DO THAT MORE GENTLY?!? ' and doing my best not to throw a complete strop and snatch the spoon out of his hand) or waving knives around in a life threatening manner etc
Also he's ALWAYS sticking his fucking finger in everything *poke, poke, poke* .....OMG, I'm getting THE RAGE and we haven't even started yet!

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

BoatieBloke once cooked me dinner on valentine's day and in an effort to stop myself interfering in the cooking process I sat on the sofa and drank loads of wine so was really very pissed by the time he served it up
I wonder why he's never done it again

Haha, yes! Mr Yu has had so many kitchen 'situations' that I no longer let him cook, and then I complain that I do it all.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

African peanut soup plus some naan bread

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1854660/african-peanut-soup

 

[TitanSound]

I once offered, good naturedly, to show someone how to hold the knife comfortably and safely so they didn't keep cutting their fingers. I got told to "fuck off"

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

African peanut soup plus some naan bread

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1854660/african-peanut-soup

Ooooh nom!

I shouldn't be reading this thread cos poor Mr Yu has gone out in the snow to get curry, and may not return for a while.

 

[BoatieBird]

Haha, yes! Mr Yu has had so many kitchen 'situations' that I no longer let him cook, and then I complain that I do it all.

that sounds oh so familiar (especially the complaining that I do it all )

 

[crustychick]

African peanut soup plus some naan bread

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1854660/african-peanut-soup

mmmm, that looks good. might try that over the weekend

 

[wtfftw]

Haha. I'm a fucking expert at slicing bread* as my dad used to be all patronising about it as well as every time I picked up a sharp knife saying adherer the nearest hospital was and that he didn't have time to take me there.






*my biggest triumph being amazingly even slices for toast while mesmerised by civilisations rising and failing in the on 2cb. prettiest toast ever.

 

[foamy]

Only in the last year or so, tbh (later than I should've!) and he's 12 now although my daughter has a day, too and she's 6.
In theory they should be able to decide what they would like to cook and then do it (with me *helping* obv ) but in practice it's more like me asking what they would like to cook out of *a few named ideas* cos otherwise there's just bafflement 'I dunno!? '

It's actually quite hard for me to implement when their dad's here because they're staying between the two of us and when they're here they're generally having to do all the violin practice/homework etc that they don't do when they're there but he's away for three months atm so we have a weekly planner with a set day (and on days when they don't have any other 'jobs' on) so it's much easier to fit it in.
I just REALLY don't want my son to leave home not having a clue how to cook, iykwim
I do have to try very hard not to end up being a complete control freak though, lol

is the collective noun for these little faces "a Sheo of Smiies"



The boy has gone to venice for the day so dinner will either be very late, very cold suitcase pizza or more realistically; lentils and something meaty from the freezer

 

[sojourner]

If there's any soup left, that. If not, either mackerel in tommy sauce on toast, or a fried egg butty. Must be fucking mad but am going out doing pomes later - the fucking streets are like an ice rink

 

[Epona]

Yes Tits....it's the gung-ho chopping and stirring that most irritate me, I reckon ......I have to keep reminding him that everything needs to be done slowly and carefully in the kitchen or he does that really annoying thing of sloshing all the food out of the pan when he's 'stirring' (while I'm going 'HOW IS IT NOT OBVIOUS TO YOU THAT YOU NEED TO DO THAT MORE GENTLY?!? ' and doing my best not to throw a complete strop and snatch the spoon out of his hand) or waving knives around in a life threatening manner etc
Also he's ALWAYS sticking his fucking finger in everything *poke, poke, poke* .....OMG, I'm getting THE RAGE and we haven't even started yet!

I'm the same, I get seized by anger whenever anyone tries to interfere in the kitchen when I'm cooking. My parents were round for dinner on one occasion and the OH asked me if I needed a hand cooking - my mum took a sharp intake of breath and at the same time my dad muttered "risky".

 

[moonsi til]

I have lost my desire to eat/cook and could quite happily live on toast & olives right now. Today I bought the Sainsburys £10 Valentine deal (LOL) but there wasn't a veggie option left so I got the sea bass for my BF, rustic chips for us both,a bottle of red wine for me (for Saturday) and hazlenut and choc pot for BF & his son.

I'm having a shop bought ricotta & spinach cannelloni with my chips plus a vodka & coke.

 

[moose]

Cheese and biscuits again. Nearly finished the Christmas cheese.

 

[Orang Utan]

chicken kievs, roasted veg, cupasoup

 

[sheothebudworths]

chicken kievs, roasted veg, cupasoup

*poncey dolescum slag dinner*

 

[sheothebudworths]

(Did you go to Sainsbury's this week, OU? )

 

[Hellsbells]

Delicious baked potato with baked bean/veg/melted cheese concoction. Then a load of wierd crisps. Don't even bloody like crisps

Have run out of milk now so can't even half a cup of tea

 

[Orang Utan]

(Did you go to Sainsbury's this week, OU? )

no, why?

 

[Greebo]

fishfingers, lemon pickle, rye bread
yogurt & morello cherry jam

 

[colacubes]

Crap carbonara

 

[TruXta]

Lovely seafood in tomato sauce with penne.

 

[sheothebudworths]

no, why?

Cos they had an offer on chicken kievs!

 

[Orang Utan]

oh, morrisons did too, only i didn't read the label properly and the filling turned out to be creamy peppercorn. and they leaked. they always leak.

 

[TruXta]

oh, morrisons did too, only i didn't read the label properly and the filling turned out to be creamy peppercord. and they leaked. they always leak.

Put them in foil or an oven bag, problem solved.

 

[colacubes]

oh, morrisons did too, only i didn't read the label properly and the filling turned out to be creamy peppercord. and they leaked. they always leak.

There is nothing more annoying than a leaky kiev

/firstworldproblems

 

[Orang Utan]

Put them in foil or an oven bag, problem solved.

do they stay crispy on the outside?

 

[sheothebudworths]

Leaky creamy peppercorn is defo NOT GOOD!
Why don't you try making a sort of foil BOAT ...the foil will catch the leaky bits but it'll still go crispy.


We're either having boeuf bourguignon (which has just gone into the slow cooker) with mash and sugar snaps OR falafels, morrocan hummus, toasted strips of 'Aegean tomato and basil pitta' (lol!), tomatoes, olives and errrrr......pickled betroot ....but will see what we fancy later. Whatever we don't have today, we'll have tomorrow.

And the treacle sponge puddings and low fat cream (which we were supposed to have the other night but didn't) for pudding.