What did you have for dinner?

Son cooked his Uni "signature" dish of ... marinated chicken (with potato wedges ) It was rather lovely too! Well done, son - you can cook again

 

Tonight it was "cottage pie with a twist";

For the base cook a pure and simple bolognese.
The top is three parts cauliflower to one part spud. Mash together then add cheese and some cream and mix well. By now it will have cooled down enough to fold in some egg yolks which add colour and stop the top becoming a sloppy mess.
Top the bolognese with the cauli mixture and bake for 20 minutes or so. Then add grated cheese (Gruyere tonight) and bake until golden.

 

All these meals sound so yummy, but .. I have a question here ...

It seems like the men all cook the meals on this forum ... is this normal nowadays? .... ?????

 

It is here! I do the shopping too!

 

Roast Tiddies and Beetroot, mixed veg and pan fried Pollack coated in fish masala, salt, herbs & breadcrumbs.

Followed by Cornish Icecream and Pineapple

 

I have to, otherwise i'd die of death

 

Perhaps a lot of women can't/don't want to cook these days.I have lots of nieces who have degrees which is fine for their jobs,but if you asked them to boil an egg they wouldn't have a clue.Why?you may ask,well it is because their mums did all the cooking for them as they were growing up,then they went off to Uni so didn't need to be able to cook and nowadays they would much rather be texting their friends or playing games on their IPhones and once they go off and live with someone it is much easier to go and eat out because they all earn good money and can't be bothered to be tied to a cooker and sweating away cooking a meal which will be gobbled up in five minutes

I do 99% of the cooking in our house and the only time Mr Kandy does any cooking is when it is a meal for himself,and nowadays would never dream of cooking a meal for me

I have often said that we must be the last generation to cook Christmas dinners,because there is no way the young woman of today are going to keep the tradition of the Christmas dinner going

 

No, i'd disagree Kandy. With all due respect, my kids would rise to the occasion, Willow is a force majur in the kitchen and even the boy would fight you for use of the 8 ring cooker

 

Zigs,all credit to you and their mother for teaching them to cook,but they seem to be in a minority these days.If you drive past any fast food outlet they are normally full of families having their lunch,my nieces post photos of all the gastro pubs and restaurants where they have had the latest meal on their Facebook walls for everyone to see

My mum never taught me how to cook because there was too many of us to feed and she couldn't afford to have food wasted,so when I got married it was a case of teaching myself or starving.

Mr Kandy has a cousin who got married last year and the bride who was 37 at the time couldn't cook so her husband who had been taught how to cook when he was young has to come home from work and cook all the meals.Perhaps when she is on maternity leave from May onwards she might find some time to cook,then perhaps not

Wasn't it Jamie Oliver who went round teaching those young mums how to cook because they hadn't got a clue and was feeding their toddler babies on fast food grub?

I expect you could say the same about men who haven't got a clue about DIY,so have to pay people to come in and do jobs for them whereas all my six brothers learnt DIY skills at school.

One of my sisters husbands had to call in a Plummer the other week to bleed the radiators in their house as he hadn't got a clue, and this is someone who went to Uni

 

What's FR soup please?
Jenny

 

I'm having pork and peppers risotto and no, i am not cooking it, my other half is, so another man cooking! He does all the cooking unless he's not here, then i cook for me!