Did you teach your kids to cook? Are you sick of cooking?

Linda

Linda

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I don't think I taught my kids to cook but they all 4 turned out to be good cooks. 2 of them way better than me. After about 20 years I got so sick of cooking!! I thought I'd been married almost 52 years but they told me the other days it's 51 so, at over half my married life I've hated cooking. Don't look to see me with my own show on the food channel. What about you?
 

My daughter was smart.........her partner is a chef! My son would be a risk to himself and others if let loose in the kitchen. I enjoy cooking if it's for a dinner party or the like but everyday cooking is a real chore lately. I've been cooking for my family for nearly 40 years and I'm over it.
 
I didn't exactly teach my son how to cook, but he learned the basics from me and took it from there.

I do like to cook, but not all the time, and especially like to feed friends and family with favorite dishes. I imagine cooking for a whole family day in day out can be pretty tiresome and stressful after a while and I wouldn't want to either, think everyone should chip in.
 

Hubby is a chef but seldom home. I spent many evenings at work or in class. Happy to say that all of them down to the youngest knows how to whip up a decent meal. Younger son goes above and beyond and I'm proud. I can bake the most amazing sweets...but cooking? Meh
 
I don't have any kids, but I am not very enthused about cooking anymore. Although I always worked full time and overtime, I found time to make things over the years like homemade lasagna, homemade eggplant parmesian, green chili with pork, even was making my own homemade yogurt for awhile. I made things like Finnish Pulla Bread, and Lemon Puffs, etc.

Now that I'm retired, and have more time than in my younger days, I am kinda sick of cooking, got lazy. Luckily, my husband is an excellent chef and does a lot of the cooking these days. He started doing it a long time ago, when we moved both of his elderly parents into our home. His father suffered a major stroke and they could no longer live in their house.

So, since I had a lot of additional cleaning and caregiving, he pitched in with cooking the meals for all of us. He made things that both of them liked. He makes an excellent Gumbo, crab cakes, and barbeques ribs and rib eye steaks to perfection. My end of the deal is cleaning up, which I have no problem doing.
 
Debby said:
Do you have any idea how lucky you are to have a chef husband? I am so tired of cooking but I can never quit because my husbands idea of involvement in the kitchen amounts to washing the dishes once a week.
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I know how lucky I am, I love good food and am grateful to have someone who has talent and desire to make some nice dishes, rich and delicious, but with good health in mind.
 
I love to cook but lately so many people have dietary restrictions. I have celiac disease and must eat gluten free. When we have a get together there is so much extra cooking involved. I'm glad to do it, but what really bothers me is when I go out of my way to make sure these people have something they can eat but instead they dive into the foods they shouldn't have. Then you have the folks who are on these fad diets. They should thank God they don't have to be on diets for medical reasons. On a day to day basis I make a lot of casseroles. I can start them in the morning and then get on with my day. My son says I am the queen of casseroles. My kids are really good cooks. My son loves to grill which is fine with Mama. No stove to clean up.
 
I like to bake but never liked to cook. It was just something I had to do. Fortunately, my hubby likes to cook and is a good one and creative.

Not doing any cooking this winter though - I nuke my porridge but that's it for any cooking in this house. No point. Thai food is cheaper than cooking and better as they use so many different herbs and spices and sauces and also veggies we've never seen before. So until March 2nd no cooking for either of us.
 
I'm a good cook, but I got tired of it many years ago. I do enjoy baking, and I like cooking holiday meals. I taught my sons to cook, one of them is quite good and the other can take it or leave it. I live alone now, and rarely cook. I prefer to make myself a great sandwich than to bother cooking. When I do cook for myself, it's usually chicken and rice with steamed broccoli, or a simple pasta dish with lightly boiled squash.
 
The Spousal Equivalent cooks occasionally, but that usually involves his finding some elaborate recipe that he's seen on a cooking show, buying hideously expensive ingredients that we will use 1/4 of tsp of, messing up every goldarn bowl and pot in the kitchen and then getting depressed when it turns out somewhere between meh and inedible. Of course, I have to pretend it is DELICIOUS... And clean up afterwards.
 
I use to love to cook but since it is just me now I have gotten out of the habit of cooking. When my son and daughter were still home my husband and I decided that they would each have one day a week for a planned meal. My daughter would try different recipes and became a very good cook. I love the way she can come up with a dish on her own. My son would only make spaghetti. He is very good on the grill though.
 
I love cooking and taught both of my daughters how to cook and bake.

Same went for me when I was younger, my mom took me under her wing and showed me all that she could. I spent a lot of time in the kitchen with my mom, and my daughters mirrored the same with me.
 
Mom was a fantastic cook, and she loved it. She didn't have a daughter until she was in her late 40s but she did try to teach my brothers and I. My oldest brother was most interested and is a very good cook. I wasn't as interested but I learned my way around a kitchen better than most men I know. This came in handy after I divorced, so I taught my sons to cook as well as my daughter.

Seems crazy now that I thought it was dumb for my brother to want to learn to cook because back then you assumed your future wife would do all the cooking, so why would a boy need to learn?
 
I love to cook but there are times when I want a day off. That's where my freezer and leftovers come in to play.
Both my son and daughter are great cooks. I didn't set out to teach them but gradually they tried things on their own and I was happy to let them do it as long as they cleaned up afterwards.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
I love to cook but there are times when I want a day off. That's where my freezer and leftovers come in to play.
Both my son and daughter are great cooks. I didn't set out to teach them but gradually they tried things on their own and I was happy to let them do it as long as they cleaned up afterwards.
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Oh yes, Ruth... I was never one to refuse help in the cleanup department either! ROFL!
 
I have always cooked. My mother had me in the kitchen at a young age. She worked and when I came home from school I had to get things started. My son knows how to cook and I let him cook as soon as he showed interest in it. Until I moved here two years ago I grew a huge garden, canned everything and cooked for a man with a huge appetite.

Now living alone, I still cook about every day. But on days when I don't want to cook (just lazy) I have cold foods available. I am not sick of cooking because I like to watch videos of recipes and then try them. It is fun and my food is always better than what I can buy in a restaurant. My boyfriend cooks (I think I inspired him) and he makes all kinds of dishes and always too much so brings his extra food for me and one for my son, who lives down the street. I like to make a regular size meal and have leftovers. I rarely have anyone over to cook for. When my boyfriend comes over we usually get some type of take-out. I hate the clean up, not the cooking.
 
Murrmurr said:
Mom was a fantastic cook, and she loved it. She didn't have a daughter until she was in her late 40s but she did try to teach my brothers and I. My oldest brother was most interested and is a very good cook. I wasn't as interested but I learned my way around a kitchen better than most men I know. This came in handy after I divorced, so I taught my sons to cook as well as my daughter.

Seems crazy now that I thought it was dumb for my brother to want to learn to cook because back then you assumed your future wife would do all the cooking, so why would a boy need to learn?
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My brother is a great cook, though one time he did catch a pan of onions on fire.

My whole life at home, my father would get up early and make breakfast for the whole family. You could tell him what you wanted and he made it. He did that for the 60 years he was married to my mom and continued till he died 10 years after her. He taught me how to can and garden.
 
Since I enjoy cooking, I tried to get my son to make and effort at trying it after his wife died. After all, I am not about to run back and forth to the shore to cook for him. Well, that hasn't worked out at all, so when I do go down I make many meals ahead and freeze them. What floored me was when I had something in the oven, he told me to turn the time required for it to cook on the microwave. I thought he'd lost it and asked him why. Well that's what his wife always did. My son, the computer expert, had no idea that his computerized oven has a built in timer. When I showed him the icon for it, he blushed to the roots of his hair. Strangely, he cooks fine on the grill outside.
 
Looks? like "Aunt Marg" is digging up an old post.

Anyways, no, did I teach my kids to cook. Daughter learned by herself and she is a good cook. My 2 grown sons are not interested and neither is hubby. Am I sick of it? Well, no...we all need to eat and I might as well cook as it is sure better than some take out.
 

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