This weekend I was making a nutritious ;) lunch of mac and cheese, when I had to lay babyjama down for a nap. Papajama assured me that he could easily finish up with lunch, and so I let him take over. 10 minutes later, he had messed up the macaroni (added way too much milk...) Anyway, it got me thinking about how little I trust him in the kitchen, and how that really needs to change. I honestly don't know where to start though. It's not like it's easy to teach someone to cook with a baby around.

My hubby always screws up mac and cheese and hamburger help but then he goes and makes 5 course gourmet meals. Its really weird. He loves to watch the food network and always comments on how he could make that better for cheaper. I love it that hes a great cook but sometimes when we're tired in a hurry or just running low on cash I wish he could just make mac and cheese or hamburger helper. Try watching food network Good Eats in a fav show of my hubbys

I'm lucky... my husband is an awesome cook!

"Good Eats" is one of our favorites, too. I want to paint flames on the sides of my Kitchen Aid mixer...

Absolutely not! It takes all my self-control to not look over his shoulder and double check his every move -- from the shopping list, to the prep and the cooking method. It's a disastrous (jk) combination of my uptightness and his slap-happy approach to life in general.

hahaha my husband teases me ENDLESSLY that i cannot handle him cooking. even grilled cheese! he does an ok job but just doesnt do it how i would do it and i dont believe it will be as good. vindication is when i *do* make it and he is like 'wow yours is so much better, how do you do that??"

needless to say i end up doing most of the cooking he does the driving when we go out somewhere. most of the time anyway. ha!

When we first dated (ages ago) he cooked me dinner a couple of times. It was awful - and I had to pretend to be impressed. Never again.

He can make sandwiches, a bowl of cereal, raman, and mix a mean margherita. Outside of that, there is no way I let him cook.

But, I love to cook. So, I don't mind that he can't, and doesn't. He has other qualities that are much better!

NO way my hubby can't even boil water!
My DAD was a GREAT cook, he did most of the cooking when I grew up. Good thing I has a good teacher or we'd go hungry!

I don't like to cook so thank goodness my husband does.....and he's good at it. He bakes too, not very often but he does occasionally. The only downfall is that he's not very good at cleaning up. Sometimes I think I should just do the cooking myself because his mess is so much bigger than it should be but I don't get home until dinner is already done most the time. He takes things out and leaves them on the counter even if he doesn't use them! Give and take I guess.

yes. sharing sharts with trust. and since I share these tasks with my husband, I trust him. even in the kitchen!

Part of me wonders sometimes if he messes this stuff up on purpose. I wonder if he messes up the food so that I won't ask him to do it ever again. I'm sure that's not the case, but that's the paranoid side of me. The good thing is that since I do the cooking he usually does the cleanup. I think I'm like your husband cynthia. I can't seem to cook without making a huge mess.