Who does the cooking

Alan(CaliforniaRadiant)Forbes

and all the other domestic chores; cleaning, laundry, child care, shopping, gardening, etc.?

Me? I'm useless in the kitchen so my wife does all the cooking as well as the rest of the household duties. The only thing I do is my laundry and occasionally wash the dishes.



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Mike T., Swampeast MO

Been cooking

for a LONG time. Mom extremely crippled by polio and an only child so had to learn at at early age.

Favorites to make are chili, soups, etc. but don't always have time to do fresh stock. Make my own recipes but try to avoid mom's "clean out the refrigerator stew".

For you "steamers" out there: making stock is just like skimming a boiler.

Weekly paid cleaning gets the worst and rest shared.

Gave up on the notion of a wife who would get up before me and cheerfully make a full breakfast like the Marines. If you have one (and aren't at least 50) you're lucky!!

kevin_5

Got me a God fearin' Cajun woman

and she taught me to eat crawfish and all that stuff. Now I love it! I can cook if I have to, but am not that picky and if left to my own devices, would probobly just make a sandwich and call it good. Possibly a big pot of soup too. Right now I'm working on losing about twenty pounds, so I don't want to think about food any more! Kevin "I like it all" Pulver

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In our shop...

we have one master chef, a self appointed master sous chef (taught by his brother, a sous chef) and my partner who fancies himself (actually taking cooking courses from working chefs) as a pretty good cook. On Monday mornings, they stand around and talk about haute cuisine, and all I can do is stand back and talk to the apprentices about hot pipes...

My wife (Italian) is the best cook I've ever met, including (rest her soul) my mom. My mom even used to love my wifes cooking. And THAT is saying a LOT!

I was dishes, but am not allowed to get near the clothes washer or dryer. I think I'm "domestically challenged".

But I'm one heck of a turd herder (dogs, in the back yard) and can mow a mean lawn in no time flat...

I DO cook a great chicken on the barbeque, and I've got smoking fish down pat, although my lips and lungs hurt for weeks after smoking them... I've found they stay lit better with a butane torch.

ME

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Been sweating

over the stove or grill for 39+ years. Normally, except @ umpire time, spend a fair part of the weekend cooking for the coming week. Kudos to the microwave guy.

Housework, when it happens, is the lovely woman's province. The acre of green (mostly weeds, since the drought) is a toss up. I get to do the pruning & feed the birds. She does most of the painting, & keeps the dog, & cat, fed & doctored. She, who must be obeyed, keeps our clothes clean. Even irons my jeans.

She manages the 'puters & straightens out my screw ups. I sign the checks. She cashes them. Sound familiar? She pays the bills. I grouse about the bank account(s)balance.

She keeps in touch w/ the kids. I feed the daughter & son-in-law on Sundays. Wish I could feed the boy. Qatar is a long ways away.

Dana Zaichkin_4

Love to Cook

Beside making cookies as a kid, I learned to cook in college when I was working as a firefighter and a paramedic introduced me to (East) Indian cooking.

I don't cook nearly enough anymore - working late and building a house on weekends. I drive my wife crazy since I rarely measure or do the same thing twice. During the winter, I like making soup but my favorite is seafood:

seared ahi tuna with garlic mayo

baked halibut with cranberry/red wine glaze

salmon with dill poached in tomato bisque

crabcakes


While I get the chance to do the "fun" stuff, my wife truly deserves the credit for keeping the family (and me) fed.

DZ

Wayco Wayne_2

I did

the cooking for many years when the kids were growing up. Soups stews and home made bread were my specialties. My wife cooked for her family when she was a teen since her mother had to work and she just doesn't like to do it anymore. Although when she does the food tastes much better. I can't grouse since we both work. She does the laundry for everyone except me. I learned to do it in college and don't mind taking care of it. I would help with the kids laundry but I can't tell whose is whose. Now the kids are teens and if she or I can't get to cooking something, they are quite capable of using the George Foreman grill or the microwave. Unfortunately Family meals are an anomoly(sp?)and I usually foot the bill on the weekends to take everyone out to dinner, just so I can break bread with my Fam.

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ScottMP

not much

Of the everyday stuff.

But years ago I got into Chinese cooking. Everyone once in a while I gather the clan and do up a big meal with homemade eggrolls, shrimp toast, orange beef, pineapple fish and a few others I've picked up; on the way. Lots of fun and lots of rum.

I am the KING of the grill at my house. Nothing like a sirloin strip on the grill... ahhhh summers on the way.

Scott




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Paul_6

Hey, why wait

'till summer! I keep the grille shoveled all winter, and even tho' it's 2 above today, I will grill out tonight because thats what tonights menue says. (makes the neighbors crazy). Sue and I split the house work. She used to work the night shift, so I would come home and cook and clean up and put the kids to bed. Now she works from home, but I still do k.p., and the grocery shopping. And yes we menue plan, we don't always stick to it but, but for a big group, it means we can spend more time with the kids instead of the stove. Paul.