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Post by bazfaz on Oct 24, 2009 20:43:07 GMT
I always think pumpkin should be nicer than the way I cook it. I do have a nice German recipe with pumpkin, smoked lardons and apple. What I have never been able to achieve was a dish I had in a vegetarian restaurant in Chiang Mai: thin slices of pumpkin, dipped in sesame seeds and fried. It disintegrates when I cook it.
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Post by rikita on Oct 26, 2009 18:13:33 GMT
Good for you, rikita, but I hope there are at least one or two dishes that you can make better than him! why do you hope so? I don't see a problem with him cooking better than me, I am better at other things. He takes cooking more seriously, cooks more complicated things etc., while I am just too impatient for that. Though of course there are things I cook that he doesn't - either because it is things I know from somewhere that he doesn't know, or things I like particularly or similar... But I only like cooking pretty simple things...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2009 8:49:48 GMT
It is just always better for skills not to be excessively lopsided.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 29, 2009 14:36:54 GMT
I'm not sure about that, K2. I'm an excellent cook and spend hours doing it. I'm also messy (not dirty, mal-organisée). Vivre en couple was always more successful when I did more of the cooking and "he" did more of the tidying up. (Not all of it, obviously, and I don't mean washing up the dishes, washing clothes or floors).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2009 15:14:23 GMT
Well, I think that when one person is incapacitated, it would be unfortunate to have to suffer also from terrible food or a filthy house, which is why I believe that it is better to have sufficient knowledge and proficiency in all aspects of daily life.
I suppose that some bad cookers break up with their good cooking companion; if their next companion is also bad cooking, that must be terrible.
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Post by rikita on Oct 29, 2009 21:02:23 GMT
i would guess most people adapt their cooking abilities to their needs (or their finances - if you can afford to eat out all the time you have less need to cook well) - at least in my case, i can't cook all that well, but i am fine eating what i make. same with my mess - i have always lived with it, i have no problem (only visitors might have).
i think it is normal that not everyone is good at everything - or even interested to be good in everything. if both love to cook, and neither likes to do all the other stuff there is to do, that might be a problem too.
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