My complaint is boredom with friend, the 'cooks,' repertoire: Quasi-Pakistani. As I'm essentially Amer-European I want different, and recent weather, keeping lazy me IN, gets me grumpy. Would be happy to cook for you! Finished my chicken soup Wednesday.

dad is picky and slightly boring in taste, sister is gluten intolerant, so i'm pretty limited there. i did get to make pork tenderloin a few weeks ago and that was out of the zone. husband likes just about anything, so i have a lot of freedom at home.

i would love to eat your food. a c&b potluck is a fantasy of mine.

It's very similar for us here. My husband doesn't cook at all.

Since my last surgery in Jan., we've been ordering our dinners from a local Italian place that delivers. He helps by setting the table, and getting part of the dinner dished, once it arrives.

It's been great, not having to cook.

Do you have a local place that makes pretty good food that will deliver? It is genuinely very fine to have this service.

I'm cooking for us now, and I'm ready. But for the nights when I just can't face it, we order out.

there's a chinese place we love and we'll get that once every couple of paydays. i gorge myself and still have leftovers. it's awesome.

cereal, pb&j or grilled cheese aren't uncommon dinners for me, but that doesn't bother me.

sounds like you're healing up, that's good to hear

You are a hard-working and busy person. Here's a hug.

i'm cooking a lot more now that husband and i are on the same schedule. i do, however, make him cook his second dinner. yeah, i married a hobbit.

I would have thought a podling in there somewhere.

too bad these guys have to crash the party

it was the landstriders that freaked me out.

The biggest one being, "We have this problem we've known about for ten thousand years, and you've got three days to solve it."

Since I don't eat very much, my cop out is to buy pre-cooked beef or chicken fajita meat, and make tacos. I'll include the single serving guacamole and sour cream packages, lettuce, tomato and a smoked cheese (mozzarella and cheddar are my favorites).

I grill the meat on a non-stick ceramic pan and add spices to taste. I usually can get the meal fixed in about 7-8 minutes and it takes about five minutes to wash all the dishes afterwards.

Of course, it would be easy to substitute uncooked meat but I would waste so much food that it is more economical to choose the pre-cooked packages.

My diet has changed considerably since my brother and I parted ways in October and I moved back to Irving. I was able to get the bacon-wrapped filet mignons for a very decent price and they are very tender which is a big plus since I also started wearing dentures about a year ago. However, I haven't had a steak since that time and it looks like I'm becoming anemic.

when it was just me, i'd buy a family pack chicken breasts/thighs and freeze them individually. the leftovers of a batch of soup/stew/chili were frozen in portions.

if i knew then what i know now, i would have blanched and frozen fresh veggies and pre-portioned out large pieces of meat (freezing the meat a bit will make thin slicing easier).

i do usually have a bag of chicken strips and tater tots/fries in the freezer. some nights that's all i want to deal with.

I'm a stay-at-home husband and I do almost 100% of the meals. I love putting together dinners for my wife and family. I get sort of protective of the kitchen. On the other hand, I don't mind when someone else does the dishes!

i'm just not always up for it after working all day, especially since i don't get home until late. help with dishes is always nice.

I do almost all of the cooking at home, and sometimes I wish someone else would. My wife can cook, but just about the only thing she does cook is chili, and I don't like the way she does it. (I am of the chopped beef, tomato juice/red wine, ancho or poblano peppers, no beans school. My wife is of the ground beef, tomato juice, beans persuasion. I have accused her of leaning over the pot and whispering "peppers", taking care not to say it too loudly. She denies this, but it is fair to say that her chili is remarkably mild. She also adds elbow macaroni to hers.)

While I do enjoy cooking, and am pretty good at it, there are times when I wish someone else would do it. Those are the nights we have frozen pizza or spaghetti Bolognese.

My kitchen is finally done and I am dying to cook for folks. I still have a few more boxes to unpack but I'm functioning in there. Making chicken wings tonight with some kind of potato plus a green.

When do we get to hear more about your update? How did it go? What do you love best?

i bet it looks awesome.

It is so awesome but not enough storage of course. I thought I was gonna be able to purge....But failed big time. I haven't even unpacked the Vitamix and Kitchen Aid yet and am so out of room!

SO's pool table comes on Monday. It will have a table top conversion piece so I will have a huge table in there as well

I'm not married, but I will say that of all the girlfriends I have dated, no matter how awesome they are, couldn't cook a pan of boiling water.

So, yeah, just once I'd like to have my S.O. offer me a home cooked meal. (Strike that - make it "just twice". I do remember about 10 yrs ago the lady I was dating made a bouillabaisse for us. I was so moved, she sooo didn't get any sleep that night.)

but he would rather go to bed hungry than cook some nights. lazy bones.

We can pretty much grill year round and it's something my husband really likes to do. So I try to have something to throw on about every Sunday night. I love when someone else cooks! I like to cook but I hate the mundane planning. I often ask them for ideas which helps but I still like when someone else comes up with the plan AND cooks!

sometimes the husband has requests, but i plan around what's on sale. grocery shopping is another thing he won't do.

Much as I love to cook, I would love to have someone make me a meal…. and better yet, make it at their place.

My husband will cook if asked to, but his range is extremely limited and not really to my liking.

I want a clone of me to take over, preferable for an entire week.

I have a terrible cold and right now would be perfect.

it's no fun having to cook for yourself when you don't feel well. a clone would come in handy, but i think it might be a bit unsettling.

husband is making wings tonight and i'll be a son of a monkey if i can't stay out of his way. there is just no pleasing me

i hope you feel better soon