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Post by paigepea on Aug 13, 2020 19:49:49 GMT
DH loves beef-burgers and I don't. I'll eat one that someone else has cooked, with lots of flavours to disguise it, but if I cook it myself, the cooking smell puts me off wanting to eat it. We have beef-burgers tonight, that DH bought yesterday, and I'm procrastinating over cooking dinner. I'm doing runner beans and broccoli with them as a treat to myself. Do you prepare meals that the rest of the family like and you don't? If you do, do you put up with the food you dislike, or make something different for yourself? Yes! My Dh likes chicken or beef and i don’t eat either but I make it. Sometimes my girls will pick at it too. Dh thinks it’s important for the girls to have exposure to all types of food. Tonight I’m making pizza from scratch for all of them but I don’t like it.
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Post by ~summer~ on Aug 13, 2020 19:50:49 GMT
On the flip side I also cook *lots* of things that I’m basically the only one that likes - I’m looking at you stuffed eggplant! oooh.... sorry for the hijack but may I please have the recipe? sorry I don’t have recipe! I made it recently using a combination of recipes from Jerusalem and Kachka. If stuffed eggplant appeals to you - you should get some of Yotam Ottolenghi’s cookbooks if you don’t already have them
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Post by GiantsFan on Aug 13, 2020 19:56:39 GMT
I do. I hate meatloaf, but DH loves it. Also, asparagus. Blech! I can't stand the stuff and again he loves it. It's just something I want to do for him. It's not like it's unpalatable to me I just don't care for it. (And, I actually make a pretty darn good meatloaf).
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Post by peaname on Aug 13, 2020 20:00:47 GMT
No. It’s one of my boundaries. If I’m going to cook I’m going to choose the food.
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Post by jlynnbarth on Aug 13, 2020 20:00:56 GMT
Yes I cook things I don't like, especially when the kids were young. I don't care for a lot of vegetables that most people do like and I wanted them to have the chance of liking them, so I would make them and choke them down without complaint. Now that it's just dh and I, I will make things that he likes that I don't like because I think it's a nice thing to do. He does most of the car maintenance/washing and yard work and I do most of the cooking and inside cleaning. It's a fair trade for us and it works for us.
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Post by mlana on Aug 13, 2020 20:04:18 GMT
I do.
DH is on a limited diet and sometimes he wants something that he cannot eat if it were prepared as the recipe were prepared as usual. In that case, I make it for him and usually freeze enough so he can have it again at a later time with less effort on my part.
I also do it because he likes meals that aren't good for my health (my diabetes isn't under good control right now) and what I need to eat isn't always good for him.
Here's what pisses me off, though - he won't return the favor. If I want something that is safe for both of us, but not to his taste, he bitches and moans and tries to argue that he should just go pick up something for himself. I don't choose things that make him sick or that have something he really dislikes, I'm just talking about something he wouldn't choose to eat on his own.
For clarification his 'pick something up for himself' is a threat on his part - if I don't fix what he likes, he'll go eat something that is off his diet and bad for his struggling kidneys. Unfortunately for him , my giveadamn has been busted lately. If he wants to pee thru his arm, so be it!
Ok, rant over.
Marcy
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Aug 13, 2020 20:24:24 GMT
My husband and I both eat a huge variety of foods. I'm the least picky eater I know. So it doesn't bother me to cook just about anything.
He doesn't care for raw tomatoes or cucumbers nor for any type of melon. I can easily avoid those as I cook. I really like tzatziki sauce, but I make a smaller portion because he does not.
The 19 y/o is a little pickier, but open to trying new things. I try to keep all our tastes and preferences in mind when meal planning.
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Post by kate on Aug 13, 2020 20:33:57 GMT
I'll do that if it's something really easy. For example, I'm not that fond of green beans, but all of my kids eat them without complaint (Hallelujah!) and DH *loves* them. I get them fresh/prewashed in a microwavable bag, so I don't even have to dirty a pan to cook them. If there's another vegetable on the table, I eat that instead, but otherwise I just suck it up and eat the green beans.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 13, 2020 20:36:24 GMT
Yeah, I cook stuff I don't like, but then I just pick other leftovers to eat.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 13, 2020 20:37:47 GMT
No, people who want food I won't eat can cook it themselves.
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The Great Carpezio
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Aug 13, 2020 20:49:26 GMT
Kind of!?!?
I wouldn’t make a main dish that I hate, but I do make ones that I’m “meh” about but have no major issues with it once in a while.
l occasionally will make canned green beans as a side. I like fresh green beans, and hate canned but my dh and boys love them, so I’ll make them every couple months or so. Also, my dh got my boys on canned hash when they were little. I will make that for them for A quick lunch every so often and make myself something else, but that wouldn’t be a main dinner entree in my house.
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Post by slicksister on Aug 13, 2020 21:20:54 GMT
In the past year I switched to a whole food plant based diet. I don't particularly care for MOST of the staples of that eating lifestyle - rice, lentils, most beans, tofu etc - but as I am eating to live and not living to eat I eat them. I can't cook without a recipe and there are tons of recipes on Pinterest to try but finding recipes I likes challenge. I bet I don't like half the recipes I try but I eat them any way. I can't tell you how many recipes I've tried that say they are "the best BLANK ever!!!!!" NOT.
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Post by cycworker on Aug 13, 2020 21:33:14 GMT
Ah, the joys of being single. It isn't an issue. I know growing up, my parents like a lot of the same things. And just by virtue of their work schedules, dad did more of the cooking. I think maybe my mom could take or leave roast pork or steak, but she will eat them, so dad will make them at times. He doesn't necessarily like to make beef often, because mom is so picky... she likes it WELL done. Like, shoe leather, imo. Anyway... the only things she absolutely abhors that dad likes are lamb & fish. Mom doesn't actually know how to cook either. And since her issue is the smell, dad only makes them when she's not home. There's very little my dad doesn't like, so it's not really an issue.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Aug 13, 2020 21:38:42 GMT
I dislike salmon the way I cook it but everyone in my family loves it. I hate it. It is way too fishy and yuck. I don’t eat it when I cook it. I will make something entirely different. Believe me it’s not good.
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Post by gar on Aug 13, 2020 21:42:16 GMT
Not things I actively dislike but I do cook him meals that I know he loves that I'm not mad about, just as a treat for him from time to time. It's only the 2 of us and he works long hours so I wouldn't tell him to cook his own. He's very appreciative of 99.9% of food I do and really easy to please
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Post by monklady123 on Aug 13, 2020 21:53:27 GMT
There are very few things that I don't like.. sauerkraut for one, but if dh wants a reuben sandwich after we have corned beef then I just buy a can of it. He's not a gourmet so he doesn't care.
But if there were something I really hated and the others liked I doubt I'd cooked it unless it was a birthday request or something like that.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Aug 13, 2020 21:54:58 GMT
I ate it, smothered in mashed sweet potato, tomato salsa, runner beans and broccoli to take the taste away, but it's the texture as well. They were actually nice burgers as burgers go, but I still can't enjoy them. It was an ordeal, but worth DH's "that was DELICIOUS!"
There is one things that I refuse to cook: lamb because I can't abhor the smell, taste or texture. DH loves it. If we eat out, he will have lamb if it's available. I'm better now than I used to be - years ago I couldn't even sit opposite someone eating lamb.
He can cook but he doesn't, so he goes without. LOL
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 22:03:46 GMT
I don't care for pasta of any kind. The guys all do so I make it and just have the smallest serving and have more greens and garlic bread. I tolerate pasta night because I can have garlic bread.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 13, 2020 22:06:14 GMT
Do you prepare meals that the rest of the family like and you don't? If you do, do you put up with the food you dislike, or make something different for yours not really... it's just the two of us. I do most of the cooking, so I typically cook stuff I want to eat, too. My DH cooks for himself on nights when we decide to 'scrounge' but typically what he makes is something easy like hot dogs, etc. There are a few things I refuse to cook- like corned beef. ick. So he bought one on sale during St. Patricks Day sales, and he cooked it while I was gone for a couple weeks, lol. okay, I switch my answer to a resounding NO. My DH loves lamb, and hash, and other things like that, but lamb chops he gets when we go out for our anniversary, and if he wants hash (yuck; it smells like cat food, to me), he'll just cook it himself. Anything else is easy to get around; he doesn't like certain things on his salad, so I leave them off of his portion. ETA: and I am NOT a good cook, so most of the things he really likes would be better gotten in a restaurant, anyway. lol.
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Post by LeaP on Aug 13, 2020 22:19:22 GMT
Meatloaf, green bean casserole and stuff like that. My husband is from the Midwest and occasionally wants comfort food. I will occasionally make it for him. Mind you my meatloaf is full of caramelized onions, hot pepper flakes, and panko bread crumbs so it is very different from what he grew up eating, but it fulfills his need for nostalgia.
I think time has changed his palate. I have some recipes his mother shared 20+ years ago. He had a craving and made himself one of her dishes. The leftovers lingered for days. When I make meatloaf, if we have leftovers they are gone by lunchtime the next day.
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Post by Karene on Aug 13, 2020 22:19:46 GMT
I will cook vegetables I don't like such as mushrooms or peppers. But my husband has to cook liver or lamb himself. He usually does it when I am away. Or he'll get it at a restaurant. My mother in law would never cook something that my father in law didn't like. Even for herself. I cook stuff for myself all the time that the others don't like. Then I save the leftovers. I usually make it at lunch or it might be on a pot luck night when everyone looks after themselves.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Aug 13, 2020 22:20:04 GMT
There is only one recipe that SO likes that I dislike, but I make it when he requests because isn't fair for me to ask what he wants on the dinner menu and then veto it. But since I'm doing the cooking, and the dish simmers for 25 minutes, I have time to make myself something else.
It's actually a good time to make myself a meal that I like but he doesn't. Usually a salad, or corn on the cob, or a BLT (he doesn't like the T).
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Post by whipea on Aug 13, 2020 22:31:07 GMT
I don't cook so it is not an issue. D/H cooks but I rarely eat what he makes. I am really picky and only eat certain things that most normal people would reject. It works for us.
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Post by kamper on Aug 13, 2020 22:33:24 GMT
No, I do not cook foods that I don't like. It's just DH and me at home. He is perfectly capable of cooking for himself. This.
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Post by peabay on Aug 13, 2020 22:34:26 GMT
I'm gluten free but I make my family pasta. I just put the sauce on spaghetti squash or something else.
So, yes, I make my family things I wouldn't eat.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Aug 13, 2020 22:43:06 GMT
Typically, no. Although tonight I am making ribs and I don't particularly like them. DS really wanted them awhile back and I bought a pack at Sam's Club. There was more than we needed so I froze the extra rack. I pulled it out the other day thinking it was pork chops but am making it tonight with some other leftovers. I probably won't buy them again. DH will sometimes make things that I don't like and that is fine. But I usually wouldn't make it myself.
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 13, 2020 23:45:42 GMT
There are not too many foods that I don't like, so I can't remember a time when I've ever cooked something I don't like. Now, if my family all of a sudden decided that they loved offal, there is no way in hell I would be cooking that disgusting slop.
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Post by gar on Aug 13, 2020 23:48:38 GMT
There are not too many foods that I don't like, so I can't remember a time when I've ever cooked something I don't like. Now, if my family all of a sudden decided that they loved offal, there is no way in hell I would be cooking that disgusting slop. Calves liver with bacon, mash and onion gravy! Yum!
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Post by smcast on Aug 13, 2020 23:48:43 GMT
I can't think of anything off the top of my head. Dh can and does cook so he's covered. My mom makes liver and beef heart for my dad and doesn't eat it. She usually invites me over.
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 13, 2020 23:49:19 GMT
There is one things that I refuse to cook: lamb because I can't abhor the smell, taste or texture. DH loves it. If we eat out, he will have lamb if it's available. I'm better now than I used to be - years ago I couldn't even sit opposite someone eating lamb. We could never be married, you and I, hahaha! I love lamb and I could eat it, in all its different forms, every day of the week and twice on Sunday. There are not too many foods that I don't like, so I can't remember a time when I've ever cooked something I don't like. Now, if my family all of a sudden decided that they loved offal, there is no way in hell I would be cooking that disgusting slop. Calves liver with bacon, mash and onion gravy! Yum! Well, you and I could never be married either, if that's the kind of awful food you'd bring to the relationship! I remember when I was in London, and we were having lunch at a cafe. I ordered the meat pie, I took one bite, and it tasted like dog food. That's when I realised it was a steak and kidney pie. OMG I tried to return it and get the plain meat pie like I wanted, but they refused.
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