DH complains about SC food!

jack92

Don't know that anyone can offer me any advice here, but I just wanted to get it off my chest!

DH moans about practically everything I cook in the SC - he says it tastes "stewed" :mad: This man will not eat anything containing minced meat ("it tastes like someone has already chewed it for you"), doesn't like cook-in sauces, won't eat lamb or beef as part of a stew/casserole, doesn't like jacket spuds or pasta and all meals have to have one of their components in a sauce.

I'm making polynesian pork (from the SC recipe thread) today and you should have seen his face when he saw it cooking - he immediately told me that he knew he wouldn't like it! I've managed to get him to agree to at least try it.

GGrrrrrr!

Lydia_2

It sounds as though its the slow cooker he dislikes. Would it be possible to make it in the slow cooker but put it in a dish in the oven before he gets home? My other half hated food cooked in the pressure cooker, so I cooked it in the pressure cooker and afterwards put it in a caserole dish in the oven. He never discovered and now he says I'm a great cook.

scuzz

Tell him to grow up or go hungry!!

Penny-Pincher!!

Hey

Why ponse about shifting it from SC to oven dish?? Like it or lump it comes to mind!

Sorry, probably not the reply you want.

PP
xx

Ticklemouse

Tell him to cook his own - seriously! If he's really tired from work, then has to come home a thing about what to cook AND make it tasty, maybe he'll get the message. Ok, it's nutritional value will undoubtedly suffer, but he will get the message - especially if he's fed up of cooking himself the same meal all the time when you are tucking into your polynesian pork.

I also agree with putting the meal in a casserole and 'pulling it out of the oven' Often, what they don't know etc etc If Mr TM *thinks* he can taste something he hates eg celery, I tell him he MUST be mistaken, cos there's none in

mike_paterson

Try him on a tin of dog food - he could have it cold or warm and with or without biscuits.

If I was you I'd tell him to start cooking the evening meal himself - the lazy sod !

henhog

I don't necessarily lie to DH, but I sometimes economical with the truth! When I have just bunged the bottom of the fridge in the slow cooker I tell him it's from Nigella's book or that I saw the recipe on Ready Steady Cook and he is more than happy to eat it! It's not just the kids that need to be 'tricked' into eating their dinner, sometimes!

Alfietinker

I have a similar thing with hubby, though I don't have an SC. He refuses to eat anything remotely 'traditional english'. Roasts and casseroles have been off the menu since we got married. His mum's idea of a roast is everything from a tin, instant gravy and a frozen, reformed turkey joint and it kind of put him off.

So, I've started recently to break him in gently. Bought some lamb without him seeing (****"don't like red meat, too chewy"*****) Then cooked a morrocan stew with sweet potatoes and chilli - the kind of things he likes. He commented on how tender the lamb was

When I'm not on a diet I'll cook a few roast potatoes with a meal. Or some roasted veg - even some roasted meat. If I can find a combination he'll like - without announcing it's a roast dinner - then I can wean him onto more traditional food without him noticing.

Don't think he'll go for brisket yet though :rolleyes:

MATH

I always say "eat it or starve, but if you're gonna die of hunger on the premises do so by the front door so I don't have to drag your carcass too far on binman day":D

jmm_2

How long do you cook things for? I find if I cook for longer than 6 hours, things do indeed taste 'stewed'. It is possible to overcook, and cutting down times has dramatically improved what comes out of our slow cooker.

Spendless

We do get this posts complaining time to time aboout faddy eaters and the majority of the time it's men. What is it with men or is it just cos they got away with being faddy as little boys. My own little boy is 100% better these days so hopefully I should never find a future DIL complaining about his fussiness over food:p