'Mums' give their families 'just' nine dishes

[weepiper]

Mine get a neverending round of spag bol, macaroni cheese, pasta with a tomato sauce, fishfingers or chcken things or roast salmon with chips and some kind of veg like green beans or broccoli or cauliflower, pizza, soup, sausages with new tatties or potato wedges and baked beans, tonight they had egg and chips with baked beans and buttered bread. Very occasional treat of a Chinese takeaway. They seem to have survived this heartless mundanity so far. The two younger ones would eat lots of other things too but the eldest is a fussy little madam and seeing as she's skinny as it is I'd rather give her things I know she will actually eat.

 

[Clair De Lune]

I feel bad for having made a sly jibe at my mams lack of culinary expertise and this week I shall be recreating my favourite mammy meals.
Bangers and mash with gravy and fried onions, egg and chips and bread n butter, erm..ok well Tue and Wed I will then

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

Us incredibly highly paid working mothers are far too busy to worry about cooking. We have to undermine the social fabric of the UK by abandoning our children in nurseries, drinking alcohol in pubs, and occasionally buying impractical shoes. Also, we may or may not have to lose weight in strange and horrible ways, depending on what day of the week it is.

Alternatively we could stay at home and unless we are incredibly 'well kept' by a man then we are a drain on the state, on society, dragging up feckless wasters

we cant win

 

[girasol]

I blame the feminists. There you are ladies, you've got what we've had all these years. A different kind of drudgery. Shit isn't it?

LOL

except that we still get paid less for doing the same jobs.

but at least we have more choice over education and which kind of shit/good jobs we get to do.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

How sexist is that article. What about all the dads that cook?

From vague recollection of previous urban threads and also my own experience, men's domestic abilities seem to veer towards the culinary, and this has nothing whatsoever to do with the resulting free pass on washing the pots and laundry this seems to earn them.

 

[Thora]

At home we pretty much eat pasta and sauce, spaghetti bolognaise, filled pasta, stew/casserole/curry with rice or couscous, occasional stirfry, chilli con carne, soups, fried breakfasts, fish and vegetables or sometimes my favourite - fishfingers, beans and potato waffles. That's probably 11 or 12 different meals.

 

[Gromit]

From vague recollection of previous urban threads and also my own experience, men's domestic abilities seem to veer towards the culinary, and this has nothing whatsoever to do with the resulting free pass on washing the pots and laundry this seems to earn them.

and putting up shelves. Don't forget shelves.

 

[miss minnie]

Also, my parents both worked full time. Like everybody is supposed to do these days despite the fact that somebody, at some point, needs to actually raise the bloody kids not to mention feed them.

Seriously, whose bullshit idea was that? Everyone has to work all the time for the sake of economy, but that same economy also requires that we all spawn replacements. And then we wonder why the replacements are so prone to malfunctioning. Maybe because nobody gives a flying fuck about them, to the point where nobody will even bother to explain to them exactly why their abandonment is necessary for the common good. I blame the feminists. There you are ladies, you've got what we've had all these years. A different kind of drudgery. Shit isn't it?

Also, there is a special place in hell for people who put their careers before their kids.

 

[clicker]

My Mum had a book called 101 Ways With Mince. (And another called Make A Meal Of Cheese).

She had remarkably good taste....page 37 cheddar curry anyone????

 

[quimcunx]

*dry heaves*

 

[SpookyFrank]

It's possible I wasn't being entirely serious. Except about the hell thing.

 

[8den]

She had remarkably good taste....page 37 cheddar curry anyone????

Oh you have got to be fucking with me. recipe me.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

and putting up shelves. Don't forget shelves.

And dealing with spiders. Don't forget spiders.

 

[weepiper]

even when I lived with a man it was me that put up shelves and dealt with spiders

 

[clicker]

This is just soooo wrong....

 

[Xanadu]

I've counted 20 different meals my mum would cook, and could probably think of another dozen.

And that's reduced down by grouping curries.

 

[weepiper]

urgh

 

[8den]

This is just soooo wrong....

Oh sweet mother of jesus. If we ever do a Suburban pot luck, I'm bringing this.

Thanks clicker.

 

[scifisam]

I like the look of that cheddar curry. Maybe I'll try it tomorrow.

Our commonest meals:

Shepherd's pie
Quorn product (sausages, burgers, fillets or quicken) with potato product (has browns, smiles) and veggies (peas, sweetcorn, broccoli, whatever)
Veg stew/casserole using whatever veg is handy
Home-made soup (tomato, cabbage, mushroom or vegetable) and bread, eaten as a main meal
Chilli non carne
Jalfrezi
Pizza
Nut roast and Sunday roast trimmings
Tapas - refried potatoes, enchillada, tostada, mushrooms with pesto and pine nuts, etc
Multi bean stew
Three cheese potato and pepper bake
Stir fried veggies and rice
Spanish tortilla
Salad of various kinds
Filled pasta (occasionally, for the others, not me)
Fish steak, new potatoes and veggies
Jacket potato and whatever

Plus several others. Often it depends on what's in the Tesco's discount section. I sometimes think it would be nice to be more 'regular,' actually.

I R obviously the best Mum evah.

 

[magneze]

From vague recollection of previous urban threads and also my own experience, men's domestic abilities seem to veer towards the culinary, and this has nothing whatsoever to do with the resulting free pass on washing the pots and laundry this seems to earn them.

Oh am I meant to get a free pass on that?

Is there an instruction manual I missed?

 

[feyr]

our regular recipes are
stew (chicken and choizo , beef, fish and vegetables)
pie ( chicken, mushroom,veg etc)
Pasta in all its vairious forms
roast with trimmings
fish
homemade soups
sausages ( with mash,in casserole, sandwhiches)
jacket spuds
curries
pizza
jollof rice
eggs in various forms

so thats around 12 types of recipe, with lots of room for variation for each recipe.

 

[Ms T]

I rarely cook the same thing twice, to be honest, but I am food and cooking obsessed. So way more than nine dishes in my repertoire. Hendo has to BEG for his favourite dishes.

 

[THINK!]

God my children hav to hav something new each time i cook.

 

[quimcunx]

You've procreated?

 

[el-ahrairah]

Nine? When I grew up it was about 5.

I live on about three different meals myself.

 

[danny la rouge]

I live on about three different meals myself.

It doesn't mean in one sitting.