| having cleaned and cooked a lot of stuff and being pretty good at cleaning and cooking stuff but really not liking or enjoying the thought of cleaning or cooking, which always strikes you as being such a chore | REGRET INDEX:
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permalink to this result commentsBicoid Babe: I can relate to this. I really only like the creative aspect of cooking, and don't care much for all the cleanup afterwards.
I guess I don't mind if it's something I've practised and have down: it's just when there's a whole kitchen full of dirty dishes and utensils from making a couple of dishes that I mind.
Bicoid Babe: Let's not forget about ingrates, and people who find everything wrong with everything you cook. Even if the dish itself is foolproof and made with easily recognizable ingredients, they'll start whining like spoiled little toddlers.
No I have the opposite problem: I make something I know is basically inedible crap and get praised for it. Makes it really hard to know what people actually like, so the meals just keep on getting worse. Fortunately, I don't have to do a lot of that.
Bicoid Babe: Do you have to cater to a wide range of likes and dislikes when you cook? (E.g., vegans, people who don't like pork, food allergies/sensitivities, etc.)
Oh uh I guess. I don't eat pork, my brother doesn't eat nuts, fish, mushrooms, pretty much anything that he suspects is healthy (unless he's secretly feeling healthy, which he will never admit to), and generally lives on meat and starch.: I can't eat pineapple (allergy), my dad won't eat cooked fruit (basically he's picky, which is why my brother grew up that way), none of them will even give tofu a chance (which is a shame, because I kind of like it), and we all have to eat low salt food
because of my mother, who has had chronic kidney disease since forever (but not debilitating). Then there's my other brother who was one of those angry, farty, half-starved vegetarians for a long time because he never really learned to cook or shop,: my sister who won't eat blueberries, and we still don't know whose idea it was to use baked beans instead of kidney beans in chili, but it's one of the more annoying family habits. I'm really glad we're all adults now.
Oh, and any meat that my difficult brother eats: has to be cooked until it's dry. Because apparently he got food poisoning one time and it held him down and raped him for hours, or something. I suspect his diet is so poor it's the only way he can process protein properly.
Also: they're all jerks.
Bicoid Babe: I have it easier here; the tricky part is getting my mother and brother to try different meals once in a while. Bicoid Mom is usually more hesistant to try new things, while Bicoid Lad will eat nearly anything as long as it doesn't have pork.
Why doesn't he eat pork?:
Bicoid Babe: I don't really remember him saying why, but I always assumed that he was scared off by the parasites it can contain if it's undercooked. He'll eat bacon if it's in spaghetti sauce, though.
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