A View thru Cheft's Window #5
Posted 06-14-2009 at 07:09 PM by ibcheft
My next try to put spices in, well I thought why not just surprise the DW and cook her dinner without spicing it my way, but hers. Yes, all I put on the loin chops were salt and pepper. They turned out all right, but for me there was nothing there, no flavor, no heat, just plain old tasteless pork. But you know of course she goes “oh these are good”, you only cooked them with salt and pepper. I was thinking were did you get your taste buds from? Were the chops good? Not in my book, they were juicy but flat could have put anything on there to give it some taste, anything please! I think what I am going to have to do is start cooking in two pans, one for her and one for me, get two small fry pans, but now I am going to have to have a bigger stove with more burners, like I will ever be able to talk her into that till we move. There are days when I just want to scream and go why you can not be normal and eat food with some taste. I have found two books The Spice Bible and The Herb and Spice Bible, they could help, if I had any idea what spice to try slip in on her. I found that I can do a jerk chicken, and she will eat that, because it reminds her of our trip in Jamaica, sometime things like that I can get by with, like Mexican food from the trip to Mexico, that would be Fajitas’ and refried beans but no rice and that would be it, no enchiladas’, she will do tacos as long as the are like Taco bells, there is so much that I want to try but have not figured out if it is going to be for one and if I did that then she would want some just so I would feel guilty for not fixing more. Yes life is wonderful. Till next time, hug some near you, they just may need it more than you know.
Cook with passion, served with love
Cheft.
Cook with passion, served with love
Cheft.
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I feel for ya brother. My mother lives with me and she is a depression era baby. They, (as she tells it) were lucky to have a ketchup sandwich. Her tastes are very simple, she wants nothing except milk and butter in mashed potatoes, nothing but butter on green beans ect.
I'm NOT a depression era child, I like flavor in my food. I cook dinner every sunday. I'm to the point I no longer ask how was her dinner. If it's not just bland as hell, it was bad.
I sauteed some onion and garlic, threw in some chopped seeded n cored tomato, then green and yellow squash. I finished with fresh basil and parm reggiano. It was delicous, she didn't like it. In her little world I ruined good squash. In my little world she's an idiot, with the taste buds of a 12 year old.
I've finally gotten to the point where I no longer care. I'm cooking mostly for me. I buy it, I cook it, I'm cooking it for me.
Sure I'll try to keep some things simple for her, but for me, I'm gonna go ahead and add the coffee/molasse glaze on the pork chops.
she can go hungry if she wants, up to her.Posted 06-14-2009 at 08:01 PM by Davebuoy
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