Anybody have a significant other whose tastes in food are totally different than yours? How do you compromise?

Question

I like super spicy food and usually think that other people's food isn't seasoned enough.I see chefs do the "fairy sprinkle" of salt and pepper on food and to me, that isn't enough.

Also,being born in the US, I don't like eating food from "the motherland" cause some of it is like fear factor stuff, even though all nations have their own gross recipes (blood pudding, haggis, or meneudo) In my younger days, I would cook my own food separate from what my mom made. Do most people compromise and eat their spouses food, even though it doesn't satisfy them. I would think this more important than being sexually compatible. I look forward to cooking holiday meals together without second guessing their cooking style or palette. None of that "Why don't you just sit down and let me cook it, you're ruining it!" By the way, i am single, and never married or had a girlfriend long enough to be cooking together. Also does anyone have a significant other that doesn't trust you in the kitchen?

Does anybody have a sig. other that eats food that you can't stand...to the point that you think, "That stuff is in your mouth, and you expect me to kiss you, yuck!" There are some things that if they were in the food I was eating, I wouldn't be able to pick it out, like how some do with mushrooms on pizza, I wouldn't eat it cause it touched my food.

Answer 1

Well, I don't know that my wife's tastes are "totally" different, but we don't agree on alot of things. So, the first thing we did was narrow down what we do both like. It's actually easier if you are buying groceries together all of the time if the menu is a bit smaller. Then we just sort of trade off. Though I might not love roasted chicken and she might not love stir-fry, we don't hate them, so we eat the other's food and look forward to the next meal we cook. Other than that, we make lots of "assembly line" foods, things like burritos, where all the toppings are lined up in bowls and I can skip the sour cream and she can skip the jalepenos. That way, we aren't having seperate meals, but we don't have to suffer either. And finally, sometimes it's fine to just do your own thing. My wife hates pork chops, and I'd been craving them, so finally when she went to get steak I had her get me a pork chop..it wasn't that hard to make both of those at the same time. We shared salad and beer, but both had the entree we were set on.

And I can relate to being a pepper belly. I have a whole shelf devoted to sauces and peppers I can add to dull food after she's cooked it...lol. Good luck.

Answer 2

I am American and my husband is Pakistani, he does a lot of our cooking, under spices mine, and over spices his dish. I have learned to eat a lot of different things and I'm enjoying it. He has also learned to eat my cooking which is a big deal because no one else will. We have fun in the kitchen and when we go shopping together to buy food for the house.

Answer 3

song is a needed area of my life, so i think of it would be mandatory that we a minimum of proportion a majority of our musical tastes. i'm fortunate in liking quite a few genres, however the main 2 I pay attention to are classic Rock, and Celtic {that's frequently sung in Gaelic}, so if a means companion hated those 2 genres... issues might right now finally end up going nowhere.