Men who can cook.

[MisterCairo]

I have to confess that my wife is the primary chef chez Cairo, while I am the bbq grill master, Christmas and Thanksgiving turkey king, and occasional "guest cook".

I prefer "Hobbit food" as I call it, basically traditional English or Scottish fare like Scotch broth soup, stews, roasts, etc. On Tuesday it was cottage pie (Shepherds pie with minced beef vice lamb).

Turned out quite nice, even my daughters enjoyed it, and THAT is saying something!

 

[Harp]

Regarding clean up. Yes, clean as you go. Normally my wife puts away the leftovers and I do the pots. After all these years, we are in sync and can whip up an extraordinary meal and clean it all up with hardly thinking about it.

A bachelor, I usually skate KP duty, pile dishes high inside the sink. Hardly ever cook.
Apartment is more a crash pad. Once a surfer bum, always a beach bum.
But my new year resolution is to change. No more ordering in, take out, nada, zip, zero.
Hit the supermarket grocer, take some initiative. Get my ass in gear.
Grill cheese sandwiches to start, my first step, then Irish stew, roasts.
I just need to get the "clean it all up with hardly thinking about it" part down.

 

[belfastboy]

Once in a while will buy a Costco roast chicken.....best protein bang for the buck.....two meals out of it then I make soup for the third dinner. My wife raves about my soup...says I have the 'touch".......and she tells me if I want to get lucky the most effective way is to ply her not with booze but my chicken soup!

 

[Harp]

Once in a while will buy a Costco roast chicken............and she tells me if I want to get lucky the most effective way is to ply her not with booze but my chicken soup!

don't mind me, I'm just taking notes here.

 

[Fading Fast]

don't mind me, I'm just taking notes here.

While there are always one-offs, as we just learned, for the general population though, I'd still say booze is more effective for loosening inhibitions.

 

[Harp]

for the general population though, I'd still say booze is more effective for loosening inhibitions.

Probably so. Although I have learned that ladies of a certain age are unencumbered
by reticence in ahem...certain matters.