Anyone else HATE to cook?

[JunieJay]

I've just gotten to the point where I absolutely DREAD coming up with what to cook for dinner every night. Its bad enough trying to decide what I'm in the mood for, but then to consider the whole family, ugh. Fortunately, my husband has always done a lot of the cooking. Unfortunatelty, his hours are changing at work to where he will be home after the dinner hour so now it will be my FULL TIME job.

I just find cooking so drab and boring. Its not that I can't do it, I just don't want to do it. I hate anything that takes a long time, I guess because time is something I don't have a lot of. I'll cook a lot at the holidays as we do a lot of entertaining, and I just hate it. I do love the parties, so I do it, but not happily.

Anyone else? What kinds of meals do you make for your family to break up the variety and make life easier?

(btw oddly enough I love to bake!! I could bake for hours, and amazingly could find lots of time to bake!)

 

[MushyMushy]

I hate to cook too. I feel like I'm doing great if I can slap some meat on the Foreman grill and throw some frozen veggies in the microwave.

If you like to bake, how about casseroles? I love casseroles, but unfortunately, my family doesn't.

 

[Bob Slydell]

I love to cook, actually. I just wish I had more time to do it right, rather than running home to quickly toss something together for dinner.

 

[WhatATreat]

I hate to cook and bake! And there are only three of us! Partly it is that I just don't like it, but also I try to cook for my DH who has high cholestoral and our son doesn't like lean meat. I try so hard to find alternatives, like trying to make Ds's favorite meals vegetarian so DH can eat them too, but they are both so darn picky. Half the time I end up with chicken breasts, brown rice and veggies and the other half it's stuff like spaghetti with marinara sauce (no meat) and frozen pizza. When I win the lottery, the first thing I am going to do is hire a personal chef!

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

OMG I hate to cook too but I love to bake. Were we separated at birth?
I think the cooking thing wouldn't be so bad if I had the TIME to cook. I just don't have it.

 

[JunieJay]

I hate to cook too. I feel like I'm doing great if I can slap some meat on the Foreman grill and throw some frozen veggies in the microwave.

If you like to bake, how about casseroles? I love casseroles, but unfortunately, my family doesn't.

Same here. I've tried a few casseroles and they were horrified.

 

[MushyMushy]

Same here. I've tried a few casseroles and they were horrified.

Horrified! That's a great way to describe it. My kids are the same way.

 

[Mackey Mouse]

Believe it or not.. ME... I hate to cook, love to bake, hate to cook..

But I did make a great chicken soup yesterday with pastina in it, carrots, onions, celery and baby meatballs... You know this soup Judi????

Bob cooks????? Why didn't I get one of those husbands who does the food shopping and likes to cook...not moi...no such luck.

 

[JunieJay]

Believe it or not.. ME... I hate to cook, love to bake, hate to cook..

But I did make a great chicken soup yesterday with pastina in it, carrots, onions, celery and baby meatballs... You know this soup Judi????

Bob cooks????? Why didn't I get one of those husbands who does the food shopping and likes to cook...not moi...no such luck.

Yummy. I would love that. I would have to omit the carrots, onions and celery though, if i was giving it to my kids. One would rather die than eat onions, the other would no way eat carrots or celery.

Marsha, is that Italian Wedding Soup? My mother used to make that, haven't had it in ages.

 

[Christine]

I feel your pain. After working all day, and then commuting, I just HATE stepping into that kitchen. It's gotten so that I kind of cook the same thing over and over again.

One thing that I like, that's easy, is a marinated top sirloin or flank steak. I come home, dump the steak in a Ziploc bag with soy sauce, ginger, rice wine vinegar, and a little olive oil (or WHATEVER) and let it marinate for about 30 minutes. I pop that on the grill for about 20 minutes until medium rare. Slice across the grain really thin. The kids LOVE this. I serve it with a salad (sometimes over a salad), and I might have some type of oven roasted potatoes.

We are also not above having some jarred pasta sauce, pasta, and salad on another night.

My son LOVES tuna casserole so I make it occasionally just to have someone smile at my cooking, but the rest of us hate it.

Ham steaks are also easy and good and can go on the grill or baked in the oven.

 

[pumba]

I love to cook but hate to clean up afterwards......so if we could swap.....hahaha......hard to get my act together now because the foods I always loved......cant really have more then a cup of it at a time.....I buy a large bag or two of spinach each week too.......I love steamed spinach....could eat that every day of the week.....but hubby cant have alot of green stuff with vitamin K in it.......I cant have the carbs.....well only 45 a meal.....
I do love a good slab of steak and chicken and shrimp and fishies.....and critters......give me

 

[Bob Slydell]

Bob cooks????? Why didn't I get one of those husbands who does the food shopping and likes to cook...not moi...no such luck.

Food shopping, cooking, laundry, diapers -- I'm all-purpose

 

[CheshireVal]

I'm the complete opposite: I love to cook but HATE to bake. I hate baking so much that I really don't ever do it (except for a birthday, when I might make a cake from a box )

When I feel like I'm getting in a cooking rut, I'll just pull out some recipe books and find something new to try. I love it!!!

 

[Mackey Mouse]

I am impressed Bob....your wife must appreciate all you do too, the boys are getting so big, love the picture.

Have any brothers, I have these unmarried daughters, only if they cook, do dishes, shop and take care of the house, of course..

I think they call it Italian wedding soup.. I also scrambled an egg in there...it is what my Mom would make when we were sick and DH was not feeling too great yesterday so I thought it would be good comfort food. *sigh*

Not eating any critters, Marie.. no way, no how..

 

[mickeyboat]

I hate to cook! I thought once we got our kitchen remodeled, I would love it, but I still don't. If all I had to do was cook, I might enjoy it. But it's the planning, the shopping, the defrosting, the cooking, the cleaning, etc. that makes it such drugery.

Lucky for me, DH likes to cook, and since he is a little slow at work, has been taking some of the responsibility of cooking. He has even gone shopping a couple of times to get the ingredients of something special he wants to make.

Besides having DH help, some ideas I have are to grill a lot (which DH does ), and making something like a big pot of soup over the weekend that we can eat several times again during the week when we just don't feel like coming up with something (last weekend I made a baked ziti and a big pot of chicken noodle soup). I also try to plan meals where fresher ingredients are used sooner after grocery shoping is done, so we don't end up throwing away spoiled food before we get a chance to use it.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

Food shopping, cooking, laundry, diapers -- I'm all-purpose

What a good man you are Bob!


You sound like you do the same as my DH.
I hate cooking and he does all of it.

He'll be happy to know he has company with you when he does
all his chores!

 

[j's m]

I hate to cook, always have. When we were building our new house, I tried to get the architect to leave out the kitchen to save money. DH insisted we had to have one.

We all like different kinds of food, DH only wants Italian, DS only likes chicken and I could eat anything someone else cooks.

I would do dishes all day, and clean the kitchen if someone else would cook.

 

[noseybuddy]

I hate to cook, bake, go food shopping, clean, in fact they were teasing me at work yesterday saying they only thing I do is let my dogs out.

 

[NMAmy]

Both my parents were fantastic cooks--I never learned how until I moved away. My dad would drop everything to make you exactly what you wanted and even included garnishes like a radish rose. However, we called him the anal retentive chef because he was so picky about everything that having him teach you was just a nightmare.

But--since I love to eat, I learned to cook. I don't mind it--although dd drives me batty. One month she'll LOVE something and the next she hates it. I don't cook around her preferences much anymore so she's allowed to pick and choose from what I've prepared at dinner. (She's
16.)

DH only cooks occasionally--he makes a fantastic breakfast (and he makes this for me every Sunday) and he makes a great curry.

 

[meandtheguys2]

I love to cook, but I hate having to do it everyday. I hate figuring out what we are having, cooking for the boys, and cooking a bit differently for my husband. I hate grocery shopping, and that it costs $100 to walk into and out of any grocery store!

But, if it is the weekend, and there is a new recipe and a bottle of wine available, well, that is a whole 'nother story!

eta: I love winter, though, because I make my family eat whatever soup I have made. Between soups and the crockpot, I get out of cooking at least a couple of days a week!