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..that's absolutely terrible but she thinks she does a great job.

With my ex, it was pancakes.
Cardboard Frisbee's! I'd dump a bottle of Aunt Jemimah and half a stick of land-o-lakes on them things and I'd still need a gallon of milk and a funnel to wash them down. You could chew on them radial tires for days and they'd never dissolve.

I never said a word. I sat there and ate em with a smile.
 
How do you screw up pancakes?

mine is pulled pork...outta the Instant Pot. Just...just, horrible. But she thinks it’s the best thing ever.
 
Mine is baked ziti, don't get me wrong it's not baad. But it's not real good either. It's just a little bland, most cause she uses the cheapest sauce she can find.
 
Mine used to have issues with pancakes too. They were so thin they looked like a crepe. I taught her how to make them right now.
The women can’t grill hamburgers or pork chops. Almost every time she has grilled burgers she has set the grill on fire and twice has burned her hair whilst trying to put said fire out. For her safety and the neighbors I have banned her from cooking burgers.
 
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My wife has never cooked anything that wasn't delicious.... She is a great cook and loves to do it.. I am very blessed..... Before my mother died, she sat with Mom for a whole weekend and discussed her recipes as Mom never wrote anything down and never measured ingredients.
 
Pretty much everything. My "wife" thinks it's awesome to eat sticks and dead things off the ground, so....
 
My wife’s mom was the best country cook ever. My wife on the other hand has always been a health nut. While it’s good that she could probably still wear her cheerleading outfit 30 years later, it did influence her cooking for many years...
Until she got over it. I think the fact that both our sons are beanpoles made her want to put some meat on their bones, and when they visit now, I am the happy beneficiary.
 
Nothing.

I can't remember anything she's fixed that was bad/inedible...she's a damned good cook.

And no, she ain't looking over my shoulder as I type this.

This x2...my wife is an old school "dump" cook...she understands how food and ingredients go together, compliment/enhance each other, and no mistaking it is her kitchen.
 
How do you screw up pancakes?

It's really easy to screw then up...over mixing/beating the batter. If the batter is smooth with no lumps in it at all, the pancakes are rubbery when you cook them up. A good pancake batter should still have a bunch of small lumps in it.

Mine isnt the greatest cook, but nothing is inedible....anymore. After we first got married I had to teach her that chicken breasts didnt need to be baked at 400 for 45 minutes. Always so dry and tough.
She's much better about that now lol.
 
My wife is a very good cook. She worked as a short order and prep cook for years. She is the holder of all her grandmothers recipes and cooking secrets. Really nothing she can’t cook.

These days I do 95% of the cooking so sometimes she is a little rusty but nothing comes out bad. With her demanding schedule and my lack of schedule it only makes sense for me to do the cooking. Big holiday meals are where she shines these days. Her Thanksgiving table is amazing.
 
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Nothing.

I can't remember anything she's fixed that was bad/inedible...she's a damned good cook.

And no, she ain't looking over my shoulder as I type this.
Dittos here.
She’s 1/2 Sicilian and what comes out of the kitchen shows it. The dishes we never the same, nothing’s measured so it makes it very hard for the DIL’s to duplicate.
When we were dirt broke kids her family called the cast iron skillet “the Magic pan”, the few ingredients were always great.
 
Bacon. She likes it dried out crispy crumbly like a meat cracker. Ruint I say! But she knows how I like mine done and cooks hers separately.
 
Bacon. She likes it dried out crispy crumbly like a meat cracker. Ruint I say! But she knows how I like mine done and cooks hers separately.

My wife is the opposite. Like it's soft and chewy. I'd rather have it like your wife cooks it.

But...lets be real here. It's bacon. If it's been heated to at least room temp or 1 shade lighter than black as night, I'll eat it. :D
 
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For some reason my wife thinks sloppy joes is a meal. I hate them with every fiber of my being. She's finally gotten the point.

Other things that she cooks I enjoy. And I do probably 60% of the cooking myself.
 
@Lil D is a helluva cook.
 
Lol! Sloppy Joe’s are a treat in my house. I can’t explain why but I love that meal.
One of my favorite quick fixes ever
 
For some reason my wife thinks sloppy joes is a meal. I hate them with every fiber of my being. She's finally gotten the point.

Other things that she cooks I enjoy. And I do probably 60% of the cooking myself.
Lol! Sloppy Joe’s are a treat in my house. I can’t explain why but I love that meal.
We make our own Sloppy Joes here and we both like them a lot.
 
It's really easy to screw then up.
I could smell her cooking those pancakes in the kitchen. :eek:
So my mind quickly goes into 11 year old excuse mode of why I can't eat right now.
-I have to go dig a ditch.
-I have to rebuild a transmission.
-I have to go work in the breaker panel with metal gloves.

Didn't work. She would happily say 'that's ok I'll wait for you'
Damn. So I end up digging a ditch and having to eat those pancakes.
 
There have been a few things over the years that @Chdamn's Wife wife has cooked that weren’t very good. But the same can be said for me.

But when it happens I tell the truth about the taste and vice versa. Life is too short to lie and eat something horrible forever.
 
Same here as @Chdamn . My wife is one awesome cook and can pull it off in short order as the need arises. Chicken and dressing, lasagna, chicken and pastry, and most other country dishes are the zone she does best in. I also do some of the cooking and both of us enjoy making things work out so that it is not always hard on the other one due to our work schedules and other factors.

It's never been a problem when either one of us cooks something the other does not particularly care for. We're up front and honest and we each know which foods the other will not eat.

Life is short...…….keep it easy on yourself and everyone else when possible.
 
Ribs are the worst.

Everything else is just FANTASTIC ! Her Homemade mac and cheese is just the best.....
 
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If it wasn’t for my wife’s cooking, it will be ham sammich or eating out every night.
My only complaint is she is stingy with salt and gets offended when I add salt.
 
I cannot recall Miz Aprell preparing a dish that wasn't excellent. Of course, I've only known her for 45 years, so I suppose it could theoretically happen any day now, but I'd bet heavily against it. Between her Italian maternal lineage and her raiding my mother's recipe boxes, her cooking is hard to beat. The most impressive thing to me is that she never measures; everything is Mk-1/Mod-0 eyeball with her. I am in awe!
 
Back years and years ago,. the wife watched a cooking show and it was about cooking pork with citrus. The so called chef chowed down in the mess and said it was great. So , she tried pork chops with sliced pineapples,, that was horrible. Told her, it didn't taste to good. Next week she tried oranges, told her " This isn't working " . Next week I come home to pork chops swimming in lemons ? That's when we had the sit down talk" We are not doing this again dear" That's when she realized that everything you see on these cooking shows? Isn't always all that good .
 
Ok there's a second thing: Asparagus. She loves the stuff but I can't stand it no matter how it's cooked. I eat two bites to be polite and my pee stinks like rotten diesel fuel.
 
Ok there's a second thing: Asparagus. She loves the stuff but I can't stand it no matter how it's cooked. I eat two bites to be polite and my pee stinks like rotten diesel fuel.

I love asparagus. But you are correct. It turns my pee into toxic waste.
 
My girlfriend is one hell of a cook. Especially the good old country dishes. Your arteries will take a beating around here. When I met her, I was going through a divorce and was probably drinking as much as I was eating and my weight was down to around 170. Within 6 months I was back to 200 and feeling better. 6 more months and I was at 225. Had fried pork chops, rice and stewed tomatoes, corn and such on Sunday night. Had pork Chop sandwiches on Monday. My baby will feed you right!
 
Your wife is supposed to cook for you?? I thought there was something missing from our relationship and all this time I thought it was sex.


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As a friend of mine used to say "I am married that means I don't get to have sex with anyone.... ":D
 
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