I Love Cooking

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Do you ALWAYS love cooking? Do you love cooking for yourself, and if you have a partner, do they always appreciate your efforts? Do you find it nicest to cook for them, or just so you'll have something nice to eat at night?

If they are unappreciative, does this dampen your enthusiasm to cook for them? Are you ever tempted to spit in their soup??

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

I don't always love cooking. I have roommates, and cook often enough for them, and they are appreciative enough for my cooking, but it would be nice if they cooked a bit more as well. But ah well!

Cooking something and having it come out badly is more likely to dampen my enthusiasm.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

I don't always love cooking, though I used to. I can't really cook if there's not anyone but me who appreciates it, it's a bummer, so I more often cook for friends than for just myself.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

I almost always love cooking but I am a bit frustrated by the fact that my husband does not like to try new things and has a long list of foods he does not like. Also he loves his meat and I am a vegetarian. I like dinner parties so I can cook fun things that others will enjoy.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

It's not so much that I love cooking, it's something I do every day. I like to know what I'm eating, and it's something I've gotten pretty good at over the years. I like to cook too much, and leave meals for my girlfriend whom I rarely see during the day (extremely conflicting schedules), it's my way way of letting her know I was thinking about her.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

I have this exact problem. Added to which, gripes like "why does everything you cook take 2 hours to make?" make the experience less fulfilling somehow.

What solution do you reach? Separate meals? Or do you end up compromising, even when he won't?

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

I don't really love cooking just for myself. I'm quite lazy really so I'll probably just have cheese on toast or pasta when I'm home alone. Ideally I like Matt and I to cook together for 2 or 3 friends (even if one of us doesn't like it, chances are SOMEONE will) but this doesn't happen often enough.

Usual scenario is that Matt cooks for me - I'll eat anything he puts in front of me (and he is a great cook) whereas he has to be in a specific mood for a dish, so I rarely cook for him in his absence just in case.

We both like most of the same things though, so the meat/veggie or similar problem doesn't arise much.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

My bloke would eat roof tiles if you put gravy on them, so that's not really an issue round our way. I really enjoy cooking. Even more than that, I enjoy eating really nice food. So I often cook big batches of chilli or pasta sauce or coq au vin for hours and hours and then freeze them so that suddenly, on some random Wednesday night, we can have a really nice meal with very little effort.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

I generally love cooking; like accentmonkey I love good food, and like Matt I want to know what I'm eating. Even when it was just myself, I still loved to cook (though leftovers were a problem), but I really really love cooking for others (as long as they appreciate it). If they don't appreciate it, well to hell with them, I still want good food for me. Fortunately, my guy also loves good food, appreciates it when I cook, and is learning to make a wider repetoire of good things himself.

It's kind of like knitting (a new fascination), turning relatively raw and uninteresting stuff (string/chicken carcass) into something appealing/useful/tasty. Great fun. And there are even times I don't mind cleaning up. It can be very zen.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Haha Jaq are you actually my fiance? He could have written that post above, including the bit about knitting.

I think at this rate I am going to be one very warm, very fat wife... :)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Except for the part where I'm a guy, obviously...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Heh! Archel, sounds like you're destined for much happiness :)

My first husband was completely disinterested in food, thought it was an unfortunate waste of time to have to stop and eat something. Cold spaghetti-o's straight out of the can was his standard fare. I'm still amazed we lasted as long as we did.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

What solution do you reach? Separate meals? Or do you end up compromising, even when he won't?

We have a few meals that we cycle through: pasta in various forms, tacos/burritos, meat/fakemeat on a bun, or order a pizza. That's about it.

I don't/can't compromise on meat. I don't have a problem with preparing meat though, I will usually fry up a bit of ground beef for tacos or italian sausage for pasta and he just adds that to his portion. So it's not quite separate meals. He is grateful that I cook and I enjoy doing it, but we both get tired of the same old thing sometimes. Me more often than him though, I think he could have a burger every night and be happy!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

I am a vegetarian & J is not, but we've never had any problems. We tend to both cook our meals at the same time but totally separately, unless of course he is eating a meal without meat. We try to have similar meals but using our own alternatives. i.e. sausage & mash would simply be veggie sausages for me. I cooked a thai curry the other day when some friends came round. I cooked a veggie curry but then marinated some chicked in some lovely thai spices & then fried them off & added the chicken to the plates with the veg curry. it worked really well.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Having had visitors for the past 4 weekends (not this one, thankfully), and having cooked mightily for them all, I can definitely say I love cooking for those who are enthusiastic and cheerful eaters. I didn't enjoy so much whipping up a beautiful hollandaise only to have a family member start up on a sauce-hatred platform. Except that it left that much more for my weekday breakfast eggs.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

I think if I treated myself to hollandaise on a weekday, my heart would attack me on principle.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Jaq, if I ever do get out there, I'll let you know my assorted food persnicketinesses beforehand. ;-)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

I like cooking, but sometimes I am totally stumped for ideas, evem though we have a thousand cookery books. I'd love to actually have one of those kitchens that is full of every ingredient you could ever need!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

To start with, food is brilliant. Keep your s3x and dru6s and rock and roll, food is ace. And good food is even acer.

And besides, the whole cooking process is amazing. You start off with a bag of stuff, most of it inedible by itself, and then by combining, mixing, heating and cooling, you end up with a tasty meal! How did that happen? It's the best magic trick you've ever seen.

Cooking for others, cooking for me, cooking stuff for the first time, cooking stuff for the millionth time, baking, roasting, main courses, deserts - I Love Cooking.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

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