oh driving me mad!

morwenna

thriftlady wrote: »

Did you like the things you cooked Mardatha? If you did then I'm afraid it's his problem not your cooking.

I would tend to agree - however, you can put a "spin" on things too..

They don't like quiche - how about a flan?

It's not really a recipe, but I will try:

3 or 4 rashers bacon, smoked here
1 tin plum toms
1 onion chopped
cheese grated, for me it has to be mature cheddar
two good sploshes lea & perrins or own label equivalent (can't spell the name! I use home label!)

Fry bacon until fat rendered and onions in that fat until coloured. Drain excess fat if required.
Drain whole plum toms (reserving juice for spag bog or similar)
Add toms to pan & chop with spatula/spoon.
Reduce until very little liquid remains.

Cool slightly (so eggs don't scramble), and add beaten egg and cheese. Bake until risen in pastry lined sandwich tins or quiche dish.

*morwenna's notes - tins are best for crisp pastry.
I love the taste of smoked bacon but unsmoked works too.
This is robust enough to serve cold as a picnic or packed lunch

charlies-aunt

mardatha wrote: »

to be honest I havent been very well and not up to eating much at all. But I didnt find anything specifically wrong with the food. I think you're right - I should go back to PFPD....plain food, plonked down !

A hungry man makes the best cook . . . .and the most appreciative diner!

Sympathies though - on the odd occasions that I've tried doing aything remotely exotic, it never seems to turn out as I hope it will.

PFPD rules in our house

01001011

Maybe you are too ambitious? It is not very likely to cook something from the cookery book and get everything perfect. Try a new dish one at a time. Cook it again and again. Now you know what to expect, then you can improve.

smileyt_2

charlies-aunt wrote: »

A hungry man makes the best cook . . . .and the most appreciative diner!

Aye - try starving your OH for a few days and then see if he complains :rotfl:

You do what you want, Mardatha - you're the boss!

mardatha

I have the power. LOL !

minicooper272

your OH sounds like a 5 year old! I've started to build up a recipe collection of things I get from the internet - it's free and you get to try them all until you find one that works best. I understand where he comes from a little bit, I used to hate a lot of home cooked things but then I tried lots of different things and found a combination that worked best - now i think it's the shop bought stuff that tastes 'funny'.

I used to date a guy who didn't like a lot of the things I cooked from scratch, sadly whenever I told him to do any better it was a 'bung in the oven' job. My current bf's mother used to be a chef so he has picked up a lot of tips from her and I get to learn through him - we actually have quite a lot of similar tastes and have given each other our basic tips but the other goes away and experiments and finds ways to improve them. It's much nicer when you both share the cooking from scratch and then a ready meal is a night off.

ivyleaf

(((HUGS))) Mardatha - it must be really upsetting after struggling to make healthy and tasty meals. I'm really lucky - my DH, who's another diabetic, will happily try anything as long as it's not offal. We'd been married 3 years before I found out that he loves beetroot in salads. Because I wasn't that bothered about it, I hadn't been buying any when we were having salad. When I found out he loved it (I think we had some at a friend's house) I said "Why didn't you tell me you liked it so much?" His reply "Well, you didn't ask."

I bet your man just wants his mince and tatties , preferably every day? (Sigh)

zarazara

(((((((hugs)))))))))))

waddy80

My husband has very plain tastes, and grew up in a house full of men living on ready meals and fried food. It was so bad that he used to make up instant mash and gravy granules in the same bowl and eat it with a spoon!

It's taken me a few years to 'change' his taste buds. I don't cook from scratch for everything, but most things are, and yes I do get things wrong. Last week I did a horrible fish pasta dish, neither of us could eat it! I really have found that it's best to only try one 'new' thing every week. Too much change scares him! Also if I do meal plan, I write it on the white board in the kitchen. That way he isn't suprised when it's served up!

Oh and the other day I made some chicken kebabs and served them with pitta's. I was convinced he wouldn't like the pitta's, as I'm sure that early on in our relationship he ranted at me that they were a stupid plain tasting bread. This time he loved them, apparently it was the way I had toasted them!!!:wall:

mardatha

I think I tried too hard and too much at once.. He's hard to feed at the best of times so I should have known better. He's back on plain salads and yoghurt with tinned fruit.
I would kill for some lovely junk food - I WANT SWEETIES! AND CRISPS !!