I do the main courses
my wife makes the desserts.

I know someone who likes cooking, but seems to go through an awful lot of tomato puree and chillis. Doesn't seem that inventive.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 3 Apr 2011, 23:34, 1 reply)

i like to cook for friends
who have kids and live off anything frozen that can be bunged in the microwave. made my mate blueberry waffles with maple syrup and whipped cream for her birthday breakfast, she'd never tried anything like it before.
that's just sad.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 3 Apr 2011, 23:43, closed)

There is no excuse
for bringing your kids up on processed crap you get in packets from Iceland, Farm Foods and the like. It's just laziness. And the argument that healthy proper food is too expensive is bollocks. Even the cheapest cuts of meat and class B vegetables are still healthier than a bag of 'minced chicken remnants' from Aldi.

I was the same but I had an epiphany. I picked up one of free Asda magazines and did a few recipes from that. Then started getting 'Easy Cook' magazine, got a couple of other cookbooks, and never looked back.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 3 Apr 2011, 23:58, closed)

I once watched a program about fat families, you know the ones...
This fat-wap stuffed her kids with fast food (KFC and the likes), claiming she 'couldn't afford to eat healthily'. Bollocks.
( Major Turd for tonight only, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 1:19, closed)

Exactly
Fresh is always cheaper. Fat fucks are fat fucks because they're lazy,it's not cheaper to buy processed pre-cooked lard, just less effort. They certainly didn't get that way by getting off their arse & doing shit.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 4:21, closed)

true
i love using fresh ingredients, far superior to pre-packaged blandness
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 17:24, closed)

They should be ashamed.
When I separated from Nurse Ratched, I made a point of learning to cook. Early on I used a fair bit of frozen foods, but then I started learning to cook in earnest and prepare things like chicken cordon bleu or make spaghetti sauce from scratch. I was determined that my kids would not live on processed crap and would in fact learn to cook for themselves. I learned to bake bread, to make soups, to roast a turkey, to make chili, to make stuffed peppers and so on to minimize the amount of processed junk in their diets.

These days when I start cooking something up the word goes out with a speed that the military would envy, and their friends start appearing for puerco pibil or gumbo or beef soup or lasagne or whatever else I've made that day.

Not knowing how to cook is like not knowing how to fuck.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 2:08, closed)

Totally agree - I taught my children to cook at a very early age. My daughter was quite adept at making bread at age 10, and now shes 17 her skills in the kitchen far surpass even my own. My son also loves cooking, but hes not quite as experimental as my daughter - but thats ok, because good plain food is nice too, as long as its homecooked.

Dunno about the fucking though - Ive kinda forgotten how to do that these days.
(Freakmandu, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 2:52, closed)

That kind of reads like you are planning to teach your kids how to fuck
Which, while laudable, is probably frowned upon by some segments of society.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 9:26, closed)

That quote comes from here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO8EiScBEjA
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 14:30, closed)

it's weird
i once cooked a casserole for a friend, using lamb's hearts, which i love.
"oh, i can't stand hearts", my mate said, so i didn't tell her i'd used them. she ate the lot and said she'd happily have it again. i find it odd when i cook something fairly simple and people say "oh, that must have taken AGES! you're so good in the kitchen!"
it's not that hard.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 17:27, closed)