Thanks Mom for Teaching Me to Cook

Fergienewbee

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My wife works second shift. So far I have canned 20 pints of plain tomatoes and got 18 ears of corn ready for the freezer. We freeze off the cob. Our corn and tomatoes are just starting. I pick and snap all the beans we can. I make lunch or dinner occasionally and I always make her a nice dinner on February 14th. Mom passed in 2005 but I'm sure glad she let me cook and helped me learn. I know a lot of you cook and can too.

Larry
 
My father taught me many years ago othat there was no mystery to cooking...I've been cooking ever since. SWMBO hates to cook so I guess our marriage is one that "was made in heaven (ha!!)"
 
In my house the kitchen is MY room and when I am cooking others best stay clear or get yelled at. I do 99% of the cooking canning etc in my house and I would not have it any other way
 
My dad passed in 2000. He and mom were both good cooks.
When my wife and I both worked, whoever got home first cooked.
It worked well for us since we had four hungry kids in the house.
I am the main cook today, by choice, kids are grown and gone.
I still get the grandkids to "help" me though. That's tomorrow! :)
 
I'm not a great cook, my wife is, but no one's gonna starve if I cook. Canning and freezing is a shared proposition with us and we both enjoy doing it.
 
My wife and both shared the cooking chores. Canning and preserving the garden's bounty was shared in that I loved to grow it and she loved to can and freeze it. That and the fact that when a canner was ready to be lifted onto the stove, or any other such chore, I suddenly became indispensable. I did learn enough from her that with the help from a book, I have been able to freeze some corn and blackberries this year. With luck, next year I will try canning on my own.
 
I can cook. Better than my wife. She will tell you. I hate to cook because of her. One little drip on the stove and everything has to stop while it's cleaned. OH, done with that pan? Let something burn cause you have to clean the pan right now!! I hate to cook and think of it as illogical work best suited for women.
 
The best thing about cooking is that you make it the way you like it. My wife and I both cook, depending on who gets there first and who's in the mood and who isn't. We are both pretty good at it, too. Which, I suppose has more to do with my first sentence than anything else. Once or twice a week I will have supper on the stove and the table set when she gets home from work. Helps temper her wrath when I go and do something really stupid. (smile) Also makes her co-workers green with envy. (chuckle) She'll go in to work and say: "Guess what my hubby made me for supper last night"................ She will get remarks from "I hate you!" to "can I come home with you tonite?" She has a lot of fun with it.
 
My passed Mother taught me that if I 'needed' a woman to cook-clean-do laundry for me when I was grown,
then she had failed at raising me to be a man.

Always stuck with me, so I do my share without thinking.
 
Only thing I know about cooking is how to operate a microwave, a can opener and a pair of scissors. Never had any desire to learn how to cook. Haven't sat down at a table and had a hot meal since August 2, 2009 when the last girlfriend left.
 

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