Thursday, May 13, 2010

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?-Curly Howard

Perhaps I should clarify. I don't cook because I DON"T LIKE TO COOK.


A lot of my conversations recently have gone like this.

Me: I don't cook

Concerned friend: I should loan you this great cookbook I have.

or

Me: I don't cook.

Concerned friend: You should try this recipe for ________that I have.

People people people, there is a difference between can't and don't. I can cook. I make spaghetti sauce from scratch, I make apple pie from scratch (okay not the crust but I used to do that too), and I'm great at breakfast foods (weird because I almost never eat them). I just don't like to cook. It's work and I am LAZY. Then I have to clean up, that's even more work and did I mention I'm lazy?

Thank you for your concern but we're not going to starve to death if I don't cook. Dave is an amazing cook and likes doing it. I appreciate the offer of your great cook book or recipe but why don't you cook something and I'd be happy to be your taster.

6 comments:

Roses said...

Can I sit by you?

I cannot get this idea through my mother-in-law's and sister-in-law's heads. Since The Husband does all the cooking, they insist on giving me cookbooks for every holiday.
No, no. He cooks; I do the dishes. It works for us.

These are the same people who, when you tell them you are allergic to something, will push "this different kind" of it on you.

::rolls eyes::

Dani said...

Oooooh I've got a great idea. Lets have a cook off. The husbands will make their best meals and you and I will be the judges. See the beauty of this plan is you know who wins? Us!

Roses said...

So long as there's no bat wrap on the contest menu...

;-)

Dani said...

Motion seconded and carried!

Amy Baldwin said...

I WISH my husband OR I liked to cook but neither of us do so I end up doing it... I used to HATE it SOOO much but I am getting to where sometimes I like it. There still is the occasional spatula throw in my kitchen when I just spent 30 minutes and made a huge mess for something that tastes like crap!! lol

TK said...

The only cookbook I would like to have is the aluminium foil cookbook. So I could just wrap food in foil, put in the oven, and then it comes out yummy. No clean up, cleaning up is a pain. I have yet to find said cookbook.