She's perfect, except eating a burnt hot dog and spaghetti casserole mixed with sour cream and chive sauce isn't my idea of tasty. she always has dinner ready when I get home, and when I offer to cook, I seldom get to. It's getting expensive offering to go out to eat on a daily basis.
2006-06-12 08:50:48 · 29 answers · asked by Billy Bob Dingleberry 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
I agree take a cooking class together.
2006-06-12 08:53:27 · answer #1 · answered by Bassetlover 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
See if your local community college has a culinary arts program if so encourage her to take classes, specifically Quantity Food Prep I , Baking I and Food Sanitation. The following semester she can take Menu Planning and Nutrition. Be prepared to spend some money on uniforms and supplies
Encourage her to use the fewest ingredients possible, She is far better off making a simple meal well than a complicated meal badly.
Beware of cookbooks, some of their recipes don't actually work or if they do they require professional skill levels. Many a home cook has felt a sense of failure because the tried to do a recipe that they didn't have the skill for. As every culinary student has heard a thousand times " recipes are just a guideline"
Finally there a some people out there that can't cook. They have no natural aptitude for it. Just because she's a woman doesn't mean she can cook and just because you're a guy doesn't mean you know how to do a brake job.
Whatever you do don't make her feel bad about it.
2006-06-12 11:53:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find some recipes that you like and give them to her. Tell her that "this sounds very good, would you make it for me?" Start with a couple of recipes a week cut out of the paper or off the internet, then buy her a basic home style cook book and pick recipes out of it. She will probably change her cooking habits by osmosis. Make sure that you rave over the dishes that you like. Try to say something positive about everything she fixes even if it is one ingredient in a dish. Positive reinforcement will go a long way. She is making an effort to cook which is 90% of the battle.
My husband doesn't eat as well as he would like. Cooking is not my first choice of activities, and not my greatest skill, and I get almost no positive feedback when I go out of my way to cook a special meal. So I really am not motivated to do more. I bet your wife will cook what you like if she knows what it is, and that you appreciate her for doing it.
2006-06-12 09:32:07 · answer #3 · answered by debbie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an older cook. (60) I am not great with it but love Cooking For Two and Taste of Home Magazine's. Also allrecipes.com is a great site. We get tired of burgers and plain ole food and these give recipe ideas that are not complicated and use items you may already have in your pantry. I never have a get together without digging out my favorite Taste of Home recipes. Kraft also has a free magazine called food & family that has great ideas. Free!!! Just go to Kraft.com and subscribe. Good luck. Happy marriage!
2006-06-12 11:51:28 · answer #4 · answered by joesgal1991 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a cook book and tell her that you would like to make a meal together as a couple. Also, cooking classes that you and your wife take would be a good idea. After time, her cooking will become better.
2006-06-12 08:54:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to ask her to wait for you to get home to cook because your not hungry right away when you get home.
That way you can help her cook but you won't make her feel bad.
Also try finding some easy recipes for her to do, and then go to a little bit harder ones gradually and that will help her.
Or try taking a cooking class with her like the other 2 said.
2006-06-12 08:55:09 · answer #6 · answered by arenagymnast44 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Either take over the cooking or find good healthy cheap restaurants in the neighborhood or both. If she liked to cook she would alreday be good at it. Just do all the cooking for her. Problem solved. Maybe she would wash the dishes even.
2006-06-12 08:54:34 · answer #7 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah... you should suggest you guys take a cooking class together. It can be a lot of fun. And who knows, maybe your wife will pick up better cooking skills or you guys could have nights where you cook together or switch off....
2006-06-12 08:53:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy her some cooking books like Rachel- 30 minutes meals, which are easy and not so expensive
2006-06-12 09:07:16 · answer #9 · answered by Sweet Papayita :) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that if you don't want to hurt her feeling to bad. Explain to her some of the meals you would like to eat, then search the internet maybe and find the recipe and give it to her. Invest in some cookbooks as well.
2006-06-12 08:55:48 · answer #10 · answered by WONSWTGRL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋