If you haven't red this in a prior post, I am an American woman of Dutch & German decent married to a Costa Rican / American man.
Now, for the most part this doesn't cause any issues. He's got a great set of family values & I just love everything about his family & the culture, etc.
Where my issues come in.... DINNER!
Being Spanish, he's very used to having rice - all the time. Other things as well, but he mostly wants rice and chicken all the time. I could totally do without rice. Growing up, our family was big on pork, sauerkraut, cabbage and potatoes. My Pop Pop taught me to make his famous stew & that anything with almond paste is amazing! That's what I like and I would eat pork & mash every night, in a different way and be completely happy. My husband HATES pork and almond paste! Hates it.
This puts a huge damper on my cooking mood, because I'd make a loin, roast or chops at least once a week if I could. And I'd have a boterletter every morning with my coffee if I could. Well, not the whole letter - but yummmmm!!
I don't mind cooking Spanish food. I know that I'll never be nearly as good at cooking anything as well as my mother in law, but I do Ok. I like Spanish food - but I don't want to eat it all the time. I like to mix it up - a little of this, a little of that.
Another thing is that the kids are a little difficult to please. I have one little one who thinks everything is "spicy" and another one who would eat snacks for every meal if she could. I have to "hide" veggies in "casserole" type dishes like Taco Lasagna or Cheeseburger pie... These things make the kids' eyes light up - hubby, not so much. I gotta tell ya - he's not usually a picky guy when it comes to food.
I guess to some degree it's fine - because I'm the cook - so I do what I want anyway. On the nights when I know he's going to turn up his nose at what I've cooked, I make sure that there's a happy little left over that he'll enjoy instead.
Ugh... Who'd have thought??
Thank you for reading my blog!
~Jenn
you forgot Arlenes never ending pot of pasta sauce!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have forgotten that intentionally, lol.... Darren, on the other hand, will have life long gastro issues as a result of that... hahahaha
ReplyDelete(I was referring more to grandparent cooking - hee hee)