What did you have for dinner?

You are a good cook FC - I like your way of thinking it through.... and I love a ham based stock - so useful.
Very, very little goes to waste in our house too.

 

I guess I am of the 'old school' and got a GCSE or whatever it was called in Cookery ... because it was a mandatory subject when I was in secondary school (1959-63) ... in Luton that was ...

Before we were retired I worked full time in rather high-flying jobs which included travel (as did t'other half) but I still maintained the house, the garden and cooked. I still don't know how to use a mobile phone correctly and do not know how to text ... but I am okay on the computer ...

I happen to like cooking ... but at times now that I am retired and can afford to eat out several times a week we do so. However, I still love to cook my English and Mexican foods. T'other half is lucky to know where anything lives in the kitchen, be it food or utensils, bless him ... xx

I would like to know from the men of you who cook out there what your wife/partner does during the day that you have to go to work, I assume garden as you are on this forum and cook all/most of the meals.

So, I shall go away now and prepare my jacket potato and t'other half's pasta whilst he watches Judge Judy having finished watching the Simpsons ...

 

That sounds a loverly dinner Woo,
Jenny

 

Tuna pasta salad with capers & lashings of Tartar sauce, ice cream & lightly scrumped apple & a slice of Loli Cake

 

She works too.

We share that.
It's a well known fact that us chaps have far more energy than lasses!!!!

Nice. I love liver but t'other half can't stand it, so stepson and I usually have it when she's off on a girly night out. Liver curry is lovely!

 

What's that? Around here scrumping was when (as kids) we went raiding apples and other fruits from peoples gardens.

 

... small balls!

FC ... it's nice to know that you are a 'hands on' man although you have a demanding out-of-normal-hours job and I have nothing but praise for you ...

I hope she doesn't mind me saying so, but @Kandy I think she is sort of from the same school as me and irrespective of what we had to do in our working life, we STILL had the household chores to do without assistance, even though neither of us had children. There certainly was little time for R&R and you just got on with things.

 

Nice to know the swear filter is working

 

Exactement

 

Mrs W made a super pot of veg soup today. Our last butternut squash, carrot freshly excavated, some of our dried toms. Bought celery and onions, Five of our own garlic cloves, odds and sods of herbs and one chook stock cube and one veg stock cube.
It was just gorgeous. In fact if it wasn't now so near bed time I go and have another bowl of it.

 

Have you tried it BBQ'd?
Last year, one of my Uni friends invited us to a BBQ and served bbq'd liver: it was absolutely delicious

Never tried liver curry ... I'll pop it on the menu.

Today is my turn to cook marinated chicken. Just one son and myself today and we're having a friendly competition over who cooks the best version. We had his the other day and it was very tasty, hence the challenge Mind you, he's already accused me of "cheating" ... I put mine into marinate last night

@Dave W your wife's soup sounds scrummy

 

We are also having a (chosen) belt tightening challenge beginning next week @fat controller
With Mr "M" due to 'retire' from his current position in the next few years (and both lads at Uni), we're going to have a go at living off state pension. It'll be interesting to see how long Mr "M" lasts.