Just don’t call me late for dinner…
Aaarrgghhh…my own personal internet let me down today. I had this whole post ready to go, and it lost it. :(
So, besides being my witty self and charming the pants off of you, I was posing the dinner cooking dilema to all of those of you who are the “stay at homes” or the chefs in the relationship.
The other night, I’d made a fabulous meal of pork chops with sweet potatoes, apples, broccoli, and homemade bread. Followed by coffee and homemade biscotti. No, this isn’t the norm for our household. As I watched Bald Man enjoying his meal, I said to him, “You know, if I was Suzie Homemaker, you could have a meal like this every night.”
He thought a minute. Thought a minute more. Then said, “Yeah, but I still choose you.”
To which I replied, “Yeah….but you had to think about that for a bit.”
The truth is that I love to cook and bake and all that. And while I’m not an expert at either, I at least look forward to consuming my results. However, there are so many things that I do enjoy cooking that have a slight problem, they’re actually best served when they’re hot and ready…..not 20 or 30 minutes later.
You see, while Bald Man often thinks he knows when he’ll be home, he’s often wrong. And while it’s not a huge deal, it does mean that certain meals get left out while the more quick and convenient meals of spaghetti, mac ‘n’ cheese, and the like end up dominating the menu. (Hmmm…that looks like one of those run-on sentences that my teachers always got on me for.)
A former co-worker of mine gave up on cooking meals. And I finally get it now. For her, it was less stress to just go out with him when he got home than to try and time a meal.
Trust me. It’s so frustrating to have a great meal prepared and no one there to eat it until it’s just mediocre.
So, anyway, how do you guys do dinner? Together, separate, out often, always at home?
photo credit: Lenny Montana
Tags: dinner, dinnertime, marriage, marriage-blogPOSTED IN: About Us, Just wondering...
2 opinions for Just don’t call me late for dinner…
Maria
Apr 30, 2008 at 12:57 pm
How we do dinner… through time…
When I lived overseas with my husband, I made a from scratch meal almost every night of the week– timed around his practice schedule and its usual length. We usually had his teammates over too, so on average, I cooked for three or four instead of the two of us.
Then I was working, and he would be home, so he made dinner, which meant we ate a lot of takeout. His dinner planning and cooking is severely limited, and I ended up taking over again even though I was still working full-time.
The baby really changed almost nothing. I still cook dinner almost all of the time. Dining out is a treat. I can prepare equally as good of food for far less, and I enjoy doing it.
Oh, and his teammates also are the beneficiaries of a lot of baked goods when I am around.
Liz.
Apr 30, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I couldn’t agree with you more. My husband and I get home around the same time each night, I get off work at 6pm and he takes lunch at 6pm, so it’s really hard to put together a meal that doesn’t take more then 15-20 minutes. ( He works the night shift and that’s why he takes his “lunch” so late. ) Anyway, I enjoy cooking very much and I like learning new recipes and trying them out but it’s hard when there is no time, really.
Before we decided to get our house we went out to eat a lot but now that we are house poor we have been cooking at home more, even for lunches, and plan to keep it that way. Even if I have to cook meals in advance and him warm them up, I’d rather him eat that then nothing or Pizza Rolls for dinner.
Usually I am the one that cooks our meals but there is a rare occasion when he cooks, spaghetti and steak, and we usually cook together when we are both home.
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