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Confessions of a Non-Cook [OT]
OK, this may shock some of you, so sit down before reading on...
I hate to cook. Yes, I *HATE* to cook. My DH says that I'm a very good cook (I think he is only trying to get out of cooking duties when he says this) - so he forces me, every year, to cook Thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing starting with cornbread made from scratch, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, creamed peas, candied yams, etc.). I usually start all this Wednesday afternoon, cook all evening, then get up a 5AM on Thanksgiving and cook all day, then spend all Thanksgiving evening cleaning the kitchen - a *NIGHTMARE* for someone who *HATES* to cook. So this year I pulled an end-around before DH insisted that I cook. I called "Boston Market" and ordered their pre-cooked turkey dinner!!!! An 11-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread, giblet gravy, and a pecan pie - all for $49, serves 12 (itty-bitty eaters I'm guessing since 11 pounds is *NOT* a big turkey). You pick it up at 9AM on Thanksgiving morning, stick it in the oven for 2 hours and voila! Thanksgiving dinner! ducking OK, it may not taste as good, but *I'M FREE*!!!!!!!!! Hugs, CatNipped |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message ... OK, this may shock some of you, so sit down before reading on... I hate to cook. Yes, I *HATE* to cook. My DH says that I'm a very good cook (I think he is only trying to get out of cooking duties when he says this) - so he forces me, every year, to cook Thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing starting with cornbread made from scratch, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, creamed peas, candied yams, etc.). I usually start all this Wednesday afternoon, cook all evening, then get up a 5AM on Thanksgiving and cook all day, then spend all Thanksgiving evening cleaning the kitchen - a *NIGHTMARE* for someone who *HATES* to cook. So this year I pulled an end-around before DH insisted that I cook. I called "Boston Market" and ordered their pre-cooked turkey dinner!!!! An 11-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread, giblet gravy, and a pecan pie - all for $49, serves 12 (itty-bitty eaters I'm guessing since 11 pounds is *NOT* a big turkey). You pick it up at 9AM on Thanksgiving morning, stick it in the oven for 2 hours and voila! Thanksgiving dinner! ducking OK, it may not taste as good, but *I'M FREE*!!!!!!!!! Hugs, CatNipped What about the vegetables? Tweed |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message ... OK, this may shock some of you, so sit down before reading on... I hate to cook. Yes, I *HATE* to cook. My DH says that I'm a very good cook (I think he is only trying to get out of cooking duties when he says this) - so he forces me, every year, to cook Thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing starting with cornbread made from scratch, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, creamed peas, candied yams, etc.). I usually start all this Wednesday afternoon, cook all evening, then get up a 5AM on Thanksgiving and cook all day, then spend all Thanksgiving evening cleaning the kitchen - a *NIGHTMARE* for someone who *HATES* to cook. So this year I pulled an end-around before DH insisted that I cook. I called "Boston Market" and ordered their pre-cooked turkey dinner!!!! An 11-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread, giblet gravy, and a pecan pie - all for $49, serves 12 (itty-bitty eaters I'm guessing since 11 pounds is *NOT* a big turkey). You pick it up at 9AM on Thanksgiving morning, stick it in the oven for 2 hours and voila! Thanksgiving dinner! ducking OK, it may not taste as good, but *I'M FREE*!!!!!!!!! Hugs, CatNipped What about the vegetables? Tweed |
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On 2004-11-23, CatNipped penned:
OK, this may shock some of you, so sit down before reading on... I hate to cook. Yes, I *HATE* to cook. My DH says that I'm a very good cook (I think he is only trying to get out of cooking duties when he says this) - so he forces me, every year, to cook Thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing starting with cornbread made from scratch, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, creamed peas, candied yams, etc.). I usually start all this Wednesday afternoon, cook all evening, then get up a 5AM on Thanksgiving and cook all day, then spend all Thanksgiving evening cleaning the kitchen - a *NIGHTMARE* for someone who *HATES* to cook. So this year I pulled an end-around before DH insisted that I cook. I called "Boston Market" and ordered their pre-cooked turkey dinner!!!! An 11-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread, giblet gravy, and a pecan pie - all for $49, serves 12 (itty-bitty eaters I'm guessing since 11 pounds is *NOT* a big turkey). You pick it up at 9AM on Thanksgiving morning, stick it in the oven for 2 hours and voila! Thanksgiving dinner! ducking OK, it may not taste as good, but *I'M FREE*!!!!!!!!! Cooking a big holiday meal is way too much work and stress to do it if you don't like to cook. I'd probably give myself a heart attack trying to get everything done. If my husband tried to "force" me to cook anything ... well, it doesn't really matter, because he'd never dare to try. We each cook when we want to, and there are plenty of yummy restaurants to fill in the gaps. I think you made a great call. -- monique |
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On 2004-11-23, CatNipped penned:
OK, this may shock some of you, so sit down before reading on... I hate to cook. Yes, I *HATE* to cook. My DH says that I'm a very good cook (I think he is only trying to get out of cooking duties when he says this) - so he forces me, every year, to cook Thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing starting with cornbread made from scratch, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, creamed peas, candied yams, etc.). I usually start all this Wednesday afternoon, cook all evening, then get up a 5AM on Thanksgiving and cook all day, then spend all Thanksgiving evening cleaning the kitchen - a *NIGHTMARE* for someone who *HATES* to cook. So this year I pulled an end-around before DH insisted that I cook. I called "Boston Market" and ordered their pre-cooked turkey dinner!!!! An 11-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread, giblet gravy, and a pecan pie - all for $49, serves 12 (itty-bitty eaters I'm guessing since 11 pounds is *NOT* a big turkey). You pick it up at 9AM on Thanksgiving morning, stick it in the oven for 2 hours and voila! Thanksgiving dinner! ducking OK, it may not taste as good, but *I'M FREE*!!!!!!!!! Cooking a big holiday meal is way too much work and stress to do it if you don't like to cook. I'd probably give myself a heart attack trying to get everything done. If my husband tried to "force" me to cook anything ... well, it doesn't really matter, because he'd never dare to try. We each cook when we want to, and there are plenty of yummy restaurants to fill in the gaps. I think you made a great call. -- monique |
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CatNipped wrote:
OK, this may shock some of you, so sit down before reading on... So this year I pulled an end-around before DH insisted that I cook. I called "Boston Market" and ordered their pre-cooked turkey dinner!!!! An 11-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread, giblet gravy, and a pecan pie - all for $49, serves 12 (itty-bitty eaters I'm guessing since 11 pounds is *NOT* a big turkey). You pick it up at 9AM on Thanksgiving morning, stick it in the oven for 2 hours and voila! Thanksgiving dinner! CatNipped BE CAREFUL! Make sure it's a fully cooked dinner! My mom did the same thing back around 1984. Kroger advertised a complete Thanksgiving meal. Turkey, dressing, right down to the pie. My brother Scott and I went to the store with her, picked up this box. We get home... inside was a FROZEN uncooked turkey, cartons of frozen dressing, frozen mashed potatoes, frozen gravy, frozen pie. Would have taken two days (not 2 hours) to thaw and cook this stuff. We immediately took it back to the store. My mom is normally a very quiet, rather obsequious person. Not this time! She let the manager HAVE IT! How dare you? We drove to another store and bought steaks. Had steak & baked potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner. Jill |
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CatNipped wrote:
OK, this may shock some of you, so sit down before reading on... So this year I pulled an end-around before DH insisted that I cook. I called "Boston Market" and ordered their pre-cooked turkey dinner!!!! An 11-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread, giblet gravy, and a pecan pie - all for $49, serves 12 (itty-bitty eaters I'm guessing since 11 pounds is *NOT* a big turkey). You pick it up at 9AM on Thanksgiving morning, stick it in the oven for 2 hours and voila! Thanksgiving dinner! CatNipped BE CAREFUL! Make sure it's a fully cooked dinner! My mom did the same thing back around 1984. Kroger advertised a complete Thanksgiving meal. Turkey, dressing, right down to the pie. My brother Scott and I went to the store with her, picked up this box. We get home... inside was a FROZEN uncooked turkey, cartons of frozen dressing, frozen mashed potatoes, frozen gravy, frozen pie. Would have taken two days (not 2 hours) to thaw and cook this stuff. We immediately took it back to the store. My mom is normally a very quiet, rather obsequious person. Not this time! She let the manager HAVE IT! How dare you? We drove to another store and bought steaks. Had steak & baked potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner. Jill |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message
... OK, this may shock some of you, so sit down before reading on... I hate to cook. Yes, I *HATE* to cook. My DH says that I'm a very good cook (I think he is only trying to get out of cooking duties when he says this) - so he forces me, every year, to cook Thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing starting with cornbread made from scratch, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, creamed peas, candied yams, etc.). I usually start all this Wednesday afternoon, cook all evening, then get up a 5AM on Thanksgiving and cook all day, then spend all Thanksgiving evening cleaning the kitchen - a *NIGHTMARE* for someone who *HATES* to cook. So this year I pulled an end-around before DH insisted that I cook. I called "Boston Market" and ordered their pre-cooked turkey dinner!!!! An 11-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread, giblet gravy, and a pecan pie - all for $49, serves 12 (itty-bitty eaters I'm guessing since 11 pounds is *NOT* a big turkey). You pick it up at 9AM on Thanksgiving morning, stick it in the oven for 2 hours and voila! Thanksgiving dinner! ducking OK, it may not taste as good, but *I'M FREE*!!!!!!!!! I am not a fan of cooking either. Thankfully, we've changed our traditions. My family emmigrated from England to Australia in 1975. For the first 10 or so Christmasses, my poor mother slaved away in the kitchen, sometimes on days that were well over 100F, trying to cook the traditional English Christimas dinner (served at midday) of roast pork (they don't tend to do goose or duck out here), roast vegies, boiled puddings etc etc. Then we were invited to the Christmas parties of people born in Australia, and to them a Christmaslunch is full of salads, seafood and most of all *fruit*, because all the stone fruit and the prawns, lobsters, balmain bugs and oysters are in season at Christmas here. Now we have a wonderful cold smorgasbord (minus the seafood, non of my family like it much), Mum doesn't have to slave in the kitchen for days over a hot oven, its quicker to clean up (especially now we use paper plates andplastic cutlery) and its far quicker to digest - especially since you really want to go swimming if at all possible. Trying to swim on a stomach full of heavy pudding and roasted stuff would be a recipe for disaster, I'm sure!. And we don't celebrate thanksgiving here. Yowie |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message
... OK, this may shock some of you, so sit down before reading on... I hate to cook. Yes, I *HATE* to cook. My DH says that I'm a very good cook (I think he is only trying to get out of cooking duties when he says this) - so he forces me, every year, to cook Thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing starting with cornbread made from scratch, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, creamed peas, candied yams, etc.). I usually start all this Wednesday afternoon, cook all evening, then get up a 5AM on Thanksgiving and cook all day, then spend all Thanksgiving evening cleaning the kitchen - a *NIGHTMARE* for someone who *HATES* to cook. So this year I pulled an end-around before DH insisted that I cook. I called "Boston Market" and ordered their pre-cooked turkey dinner!!!! An 11-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread, giblet gravy, and a pecan pie - all for $49, serves 12 (itty-bitty eaters I'm guessing since 11 pounds is *NOT* a big turkey). You pick it up at 9AM on Thanksgiving morning, stick it in the oven for 2 hours and voila! Thanksgiving dinner! ducking OK, it may not taste as good, but *I'M FREE*!!!!!!!!! I am not a fan of cooking either. Thankfully, we've changed our traditions. My family emmigrated from England to Australia in 1975. For the first 10 or so Christmasses, my poor mother slaved away in the kitchen, sometimes on days that were well over 100F, trying to cook the traditional English Christimas dinner (served at midday) of roast pork (they don't tend to do goose or duck out here), roast vegies, boiled puddings etc etc. Then we were invited to the Christmas parties of people born in Australia, and to them a Christmaslunch is full of salads, seafood and most of all *fruit*, because all the stone fruit and the prawns, lobsters, balmain bugs and oysters are in season at Christmas here. Now we have a wonderful cold smorgasbord (minus the seafood, non of my family like it much), Mum doesn't have to slave in the kitchen for days over a hot oven, its quicker to clean up (especially now we use paper plates andplastic cutlery) and its far quicker to digest - especially since you really want to go swimming if at all possible. Trying to swim on a stomach full of heavy pudding and roasted stuff would be a recipe for disaster, I'm sure!. And we don't celebrate thanksgiving here. Yowie |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message ... OK, this may shock some of you, so sit down before reading on... I hate to cook. Yes, I *HATE* to cook. My DH says that I'm a very good cook (I think he is only trying to get out of cooking duties when he says this) - so he forces me, every year, to cook Thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing starting with cornbread made from scratch, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, creamed peas, candied yams, etc.). I usually start all this Wednesday afternoon, cook all evening, then get up a 5AM on Thanksgiving and cook all day, then spend all Thanksgiving evening cleaning the kitchen - a *NIGHTMARE* for someone who *HATES* to cook. So this year I pulled an end-around before DH insisted that I cook. I called "Boston Market" and ordered their pre-cooked turkey dinner!!!! An 11-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread, giblet gravy, and a pecan pie - all for $49, serves 12 (itty-bitty eaters I'm guessing since 11 pounds is *NOT* a big turkey). You pick it up at 9AM on Thanksgiving morning, stick it in the oven for 2 hours and voila! Thanksgiving dinner! ducking OK, it may not taste as good, but *I'M FREE*!!!!!!!!! Hugs, CatNipped Good for you! There's no reason that you should have to get all stressed out over Thanksgiving dinner. If your cooking one meal a year makes him happy then it should be a normal, everyday meal rather than a big holiday extravaganza. That way you're not TOO unhappy and he should be satisfied. -- Elise (supervised by Gossamer & Jeeves) dragonandthistle at snet dot net |
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