tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post2218198977046585684..comments2024-02-07T09:39:13.250-10:00Comments on Over the Hill: the Books and Stuff: Tales from the Fridge.JOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post-31951979253383940472011-12-09T08:12:22.024-10:002011-12-09T08:12:22.024-10:00Susan, we do, indeed, have a lot of fun. In spite ...Susan, we do, indeed, have a lot of fun. In spite of my rubbish cooking!JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post-29243245491777775722011-12-09T07:52:55.827-10:002011-12-09T07:52:55.827-10:00Jo, maybe you sacrificed your culinary skills so t...Jo, maybe you sacrificed your culinary skills so that your daughter could have them instead. That's what we mothers do all the time - sacrifice!<br /><br />I have to agree with Anna on one thing at least - fish never needs to be cooked for an hour! <br /><br />It sounds like it'll be fun in your kitchen/s over christmas!Susan Elliot Wrightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post-962568579827975982011-12-08T23:33:21.004-10:002011-12-08T23:33:21.004-10:00Anna - thank you. At least you appreciate my culin...Anna - thank you. At least you appreciate my culinary ineptitude. Maybe you have become the fab cook you are as a survival mechanism! And you and your knives do ensure that I don't have a fit of the vapours at the thought of feeding everyone this Christmas.JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post-91374874975683955342011-12-08T10:46:36.846-10:002011-12-08T10:46:36.846-10:00Oh mother, mother, mother!
You are right - you di...Oh mother, mother, mother!<br /><br />You are right - you did keep us fed ok and you can cook fishfingers (even if putting them in the microwave until they go like leather is not the best way!) and you did - with assistance - provide me with a wedding cake (even if I did have to tell all my friends with kids not to touch it so they didn't get alcohol poisoning!) You even cooked for large numbers - the fact that I am not phased by this at all is I'm sure entirely down to Queen CDs and Christmas dinner from the age of about 13.<br /><br />And we don't always eat out - sometimes I cook in your kitchen, and you have even been known to cook in mine! (Although it would be much appreciated if you would get over your weird phobia of proper knives enough not to visibly shake when I pick one up and use it!)<br /><br />Yes you are a crap cook - but your daughters aren't and that has to count for something, right. And you are appropriately appreciative of what I make - even if you ask for the most awkward things at times (read the book to find out what I mean by this!).<br /><br />So - you continue to throw things together, and periodically cock up something more complicated (fish never needs to be cooked for an hour or more, ok!) and if I don't feel like cooking for all of us we'll let the pub take care of it, ok!<br /><br />Anna<br /><br />PS. Although if you take something I've made and leave it in the microwave for several days until it goes off again I might not find it quite so funny!Annanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post-5700781395273747182011-12-08T09:19:27.382-10:002011-12-08T09:19:27.382-10:00Sarah and Miriam - so relieved it's not just m...Sarah and Miriam - so relieved it's not just me.<br /><br />Susan - pesto often thrown into veges and pasta. Thai sauces, added to heap of veges and rice . . . tastes ok, in an everyday sort of way.JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post-6307548172029488582011-12-08T09:08:21.837-10:002011-12-08T09:08:21.837-10:00Excellent! So glad you took me up on my suggestion...Excellent! So glad you took me up on my suggestion to blog about food! I'm already wondering what you do with the pesto and the Thai sauces etc.(I'm so obsessed with food that I always want to know what everybody else is eating!) I don't think you necessarily need to be a particularly skilled cook to have enjoyable food - you just need to have some imagination. And I cooked my share of fish fingers, sausages etc when the kids were small. In fact, I'm still rather partial to fish fingers and chips with tomato ketchup. Or a fish finger sandwich. With mayonnaisse...Susan Elliot Wrighthttp://www.susanelliotwright.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post-46652378677835436482011-12-07T23:04:00.288-10:002011-12-07T23:04:00.288-10:00I'm totally with you. When I was younger I liv...I'm totally with you. When I was younger I lived on takeaways and toast. Then I married a chef, which took care of another ten years. Now, I have to do the cooking. It's not pleasantSarah Tokeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13273148070092101085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251035797708672975.post-84559973754136772012011-12-07T22:08:56.852-10:002011-12-07T22:08:56.852-10:00My son comes to me every day to ask what we're...My son comes to me every day to ask what we're eating. Reluctantly, I leave the enjoyable thing I'm doing to make it. I dread to think what I'd eat if I lived alone.Miriamhttp://andewallscametumblindown.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com