Pet Peeves

My husband rarely takes my advice when it comes to cooking. My three pet peeves:

1. He continually and consistently under seasons. Never uses salt. If recipe calls for a teaspoon on baking, he'll sprinkle it from shaker. If he forgets an ingredient, guess what it always is? Salt. This includes often times no salt on eggs. Gak!

2. He forgets/rarely stirs the pasta when cooking which results in 4 strands of crunchy hard linguine or fettuccine stuck together. I love when he cooks, but hate his pasta. It's also al dente, honey, not dent your teeth. You must stir it, pretty much constantly the first 2-3 minutes. Dumping it in in a bunch has not worked the last 10 years of our marriage and still does not work now!

3. The latest irritant which prompts this post is his refusal to grease or use cooking spray on anything non-stick. He takes non-stick quite literally, no matter how I repeatedly say that means use oil, butter, and /or spray and it will stick LESS than regular. So he's baking a cake for L'il Man (yep, 5 years old!) and didn't grease the non-stick pans. Then tried to release cakes with thick rubber spatula rather than knife. Results: both cakes break, crumble, and stick. He then admits to me he didn't use any lubricant. What the fudge! Now he's trying to balance cakes with both rounded sides in the middle while frosting said crumbling cake. Will he take my advice, um, no! He's as bad as my 10 year old who must do everything himself.

Dude, can you at least listen to your wife when it comes to cakes? Need I bring up the cracked in half strawberry cake on Valentines 1999?! You know the one. I believe it was the last cake you made!

I admit, I am not even close to a perfect cook, but at least I listen to advice. And yes, honey, I am waiting for your comments.

'lisciously scribed by Scout's Honor @ 9:53 AM