Obviously many will have wives who do the cooking, but do they really cook?
I mean cooking from ingredients that you need to peel and chop up, and then fry, broil, braise, grill, bake, roast, soak, marinade or whatever
Do we cook?
I made home made chips last night.
It was remarkably easy.
I think many recipes are massively over complicated.
Same principle as the movie conversation yesterday- all the good recipes were worked out long ago, so how else are you going to make a recipe book, except by overcomplication? (Sorry Nigel Slater, that even goes for you, and you are clearly a sweetie and a love.)
But yeah- having spent a couple of decades doing the cooking, reasonably properly, it's nice having a child who has started doing some of it. Just in time for her to get good before going to university.
(One of the odd, strange, memories of late lockdown is her doing a live online cookalong organised by her Guides group.)
I like the look of Nigel's cooking, but I tried one of the recipes and it was rubbish. I am willing to concede I may have made it badly, but there were only 4 ingredients so I am not sure how to make it better
To answer the original question, I cook sometimes. I often assemble sandwiches, but that might involve a lot of chopping, or a salad, but that might include a poached egg. I hope to roast a pheasant this weekend with all the trimmings but only if schedule allows.
I do 85% of the cooking in this house. Mostly from scratch. Slow-cooked beef casserole and dumplings tonight.
Basa fillets fried in a light dusting of olive oil with ginger for me.
Quick, simple and tasty.
I may have added a bit too much spice but it was decent.
Ham, cheese and mushroom souffle omelette, backed potato and a leaf salad here.
Followed by a bought-in egg custard.
Suffering quite badly at the moment from a winter chest infection. This morning the GP agreed to a 2nd week of antibiotics. But it's one of those that is a sit up half the night coughing experience to avoid distress, so my sleep patterns are completely out of whack.
I'm nervous of this sort of thing which feels as if it may cross over into triggering my rare asthma symptoms.
I had one caused by a huge a amount of inkjet fumes back in 2005-ish (printing 1000 Greetings Cards for a local cathedral), and after a 2am run to A&E, they had me blow into a blower and it caused a respiratory arrest. Apparently (I was told later) a lot of red lights and alarms went off.
Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun.
Do your wills people, if you have not done so yet.
We did ours and our LPA’s earlier this year.
I’ve tried to get my stepdad to do one. He won’t. Utterly stupid. It makes no sense not doing one.
Indeed. Especially in Scotland, where there are particular issues (notably having to spend very easily some thousands on an insurance premium lest the executors defraud the automatic beneficiaries, *even if they are the beneficiaries themselves*). Having been an executor in that situation, I keep telling people not to put it off, but they do.
But I am sure MattW will get better soon despite all this depressing stuff.
Oh yes, but it's an occasional overhead I really do not like.
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But it's not all bad news - Australia are considering recalling Usman Khawaja.
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Nothing quite like being kept awake (most of the time) by torrential rain from midnight until getting up.
Tx for the reply.