A Man's Suggestion

[Bizzy Lizzy]

I tend to prepare the evening meal early in the day if possible so there is little to do in the evening. Yesterday I made a large varied salad but had not decided what to have with it other than baby new potatoes. I was wandering around the kitchen when DH was around and happened to say, almost to myself really, "I wonder what to have with this salad tonight." Quick as a flash DH said, "How about fried eggs." This is why he never plans the menu

[Gemini]

Hmm, an original choice, let's say

[Enfys]

That's just the sort of thing my DH would say . If he was planning the meals goodness knows what we would have!

[Grauntie Mag]

Hahahaha! BL please let him do the cooking for a week and keep us all laughing.

[Plantaholic]

Hard boiled would be good.

[Oma]

Well who said you cant have fried eggs with salad it may be very nice do let us know if you try it

[ZIZI]

My husband's ex wife as a newly wed made him a ham salad and put it under the grill as he was going to be late home. Apparently her cooking has not improved as, in the days when the boys went there, they would come back with reports of wallpaper paste and large bullets aka sausage and mash. There were a couple of reports of "goo with bits of stuff that looked like meat in it" aka a casserole.

My husband is a great cook and until the last 18 months he always cooked however as I have been working so much at home I felt I should at least put in the effort.

I do the menu planning, never ask him except for Sunday lunch when he has a choice, I do the shopping on line Sainsbury, physical greengrocer, bakers and butchers.

[Gemini]

I was married to an excellent, talented and imaginative cook for many years. In fact I never cooked a Christmas dinner in all those years. My present OH can cook, sort of, and occasionally does, but I do most of the cooking now. I wonder if his present wife would lend him back to me for the cooking??!

[ZIZI]

You can always ask Gem........

[Gemini]

I get on very well with her, but I don't think she would be willing

[Libra Gran]

Brian comes up with some wonderful concoctions when he cooks for himself and I have had my main meal at work.Now some of these said meals will make you either green with envy or green with nausea. His idea of chicken provence, 1 plain chicken breast generously sprinkled with herbs de provence from a jar, or maybe try his pilchards ( tinned) accompanied by a packet of savoury rice. Maybe you would like to try his meal of tonight the trusty savoury rice with baked beans. We have had the occasional boiled onion with boiled potatoes and a pork chop.His culinary list is endless. When I'm here for dinner he almost always cooks but "normal food" the kids have fits of laughter about his culinary prowess. He's generous quite often asks if I would like to try some, sadly I decline his generousity yukky yuk.

[Gemini]

Boiled onion!!

[Daisy]

LG - that reminds a bit of Letitia, the character in The Vicar of Dibley who concocted incredible cakes etc like Marmite cake!

BL - Fried eggs might not be so bad - you could dunk your new potatoes in the yolks!

[Glammanana]

Bizzy keep the fried eggs on the go and I'll send some proper chips from Liverpool where we have that sort after "menu del dia" Chips & Egg made famous by Shirley Valentine. lol.

[Bizzy Lizzy]

Oh my gosh LG - some of Brian's offerings sound a bit nauseating. Pilchards and rice!!! I might need to be on the point of starvation to try that.
Daisy my Mum once told me that when she was growing up she often had mash potatoes with a fried egg on top as comfort food when she was unwell.
Glam - Oh egg and "proper chips" my favourite. We always had this on a Friday when the boys were growing up - with bakes beans. I always made my own chips in a large saucepan full of oil as there were no such thing as deep fat fryers in those days. Brings back memories to talk about it. Salivating a bit now