What can I cook to prove that English women can cook?

[chainsaw cat]

Pie.
Any kind of pie with a delicious olive-oily pastry. Be it braised oxtail, lentils, feta and spinach, whatver, it's the thing I miss about both England and my ex.
That or scones. Scones are amazing,

No. Pies have either beef, chicken or cheese and onion in them.

Feta and fucking spinach? Lentils? Fucking lentils?

In a pie?

In a fucking pie?


The OP wants to impress her boyf, not make him think she's some kind of fucking poofter.

 

[Kanda]

No. Pies have either beef, chicken or cheese and onion in them.

Feta and fucking spinach? Lentils? Fucking lentils?

In a pie?

In a fucking pie?

Absofuckinglutely...


(Sorry for being rude on the phone last week fella)

 

[chainsaw cat]

Absofuckinglutely...


(Sorry for being rude on the phone last week fella)

Rude?


No, no no. Not a bit of it. I have a very high threshold for taking offence.

This one time, at band camp, a guy killed me and I just smiled politely.

 

[Kanda]

I was skittish anyway, the phone was grabbed away... apologies.

 

[Annierak]

Cheese on toast. Can't go wrong really

 

[BlueSquareThing]

Scones, starwberries, strawberry jam, double cream whipped up a bit.

The possibilities are endless.

 

[selamlar]

I'm going to cook a meal for my boyfriend. He thinks I'm a bad cook* and complains that he's always hungry when he comes to my house, the fridge is always empty (it is) and we always eat out. He thinks English women can't cook and no women could possibly be as amazing cooks as Turkish women are

I'd like to shut him up once and for all. What can I cook? Nothing too complicated, nothing too spicy or weird or he won't eat it. And nothing with weird ingredients that I won't be able to buy in Turkey. Perhaps something I can pretend is some sort of English cultural speciality? Any ideas?

*He does have a point. I have good intentions and am enthusiastic, but I tend to burn things and not really know what I'm doing.

Going on the kind of thing that I have cooked that goes down well with the wife's family, i would go for roast chicken, potatoes, veg and gravy. Its pretty foolproof as long as you have an oven (although the local firin will be able to do it).
Go for something like a variation on this one:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-recipes/roast-chicken-with-lemon-and-rosemary-ro
(sorry, hate jamie, but that recipe is good , and simple) or something with stuffing maybe, although the suet and or sage will be a problem to get hold of.

Oh, and toad-in-the-hole? Without proper sausages? Please.

 

[Quartz]

Little bit of cinnamon makes an apple crumble imho

Stop it! I'm drooling.

 

[Strumpet]

Lancashire hotpot.
Easy ish, can be an astonishing meal, ingredients available in Turkey but quintessentially English.
Cook it, let him try a spoon or two of the gravy, let him smell the aroma as you lift the pot lid.
Then twat him across the chops with the ladle the sexist fucker.

Winner ^

 

[Hellsbells]

what a cheek, when he can't even chop an onion or boil an egg himself.

I would just do a simple, old fashioned english plate of meat, potatoes and veg. And a fruit salad with icecream for desert. You can't really go wrong with that.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Cook him a great big slap round the face with some 'make your own fucking dinner then you ungrateful sod' for pudding.

 

[Maggot]

Lancashire hotpot.

Easy ish, can be an astonishing meal, ingredients available in Turkey but quintessentially English.

Cook it, let him try a spoon or two of the gravy, let him smell the aroma as you lift the pot lid.

Then twat him across the chops with the ladle the sexist fucker.

Do women do all the cooking in Turkey or do men cook too?

It looks like some people are trying to impose our cultural values onto them.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Do women do all the cooking in Turkey or do men cook too?

It looks like some people are trying to impose our cultural values onto them.

Whatever the predominant way of doing things, I don't doubt that you will find examples of Turkish couples who do things differently.

If a woman is expected to cook for her man, clean up after him, and generally let him get away with doing nothing, and has to go out to work the same as him, that's wrong, cultural norm or no. Time to start changing attitudes, I would think. Things used to commonly be like that here too.

 

[fogbat]

I'm sensing the man in the OP has bigger Oedipal issues than even DotCommunist...

 

[selamlar]

Do women do all the cooking in Turkey or do men cook too?

It looks like some people are trying to impose our cultural values onto them.

Basically the same as in the UK tbh, in that men left alone and to their own devices will cook eventually, although it tends to be fried stuff ie eggs and sucuk, which is all good. Unless there is a mangal/bbq going, at which point it is a case of the good old 'man cook meat, provide for family, ugg' bit.
As an interesting aside, I have yet to see a female cook/waitress etc in any restaurant/lokanta/whatever.

 

[rover07]

How about cooking kebabs.

Grilled cubes of lamb, toasted pitta bread, chopped lettuce, onion, tomato.

Chilli sauce

 

[Maggot]

Basically the same as in the UK tbh, in that men left alone and to their own devices will cook eventually, although it tends to be fried stuff ie eggs and sucuk, which is all good. Unless there is a mangal/bbq going, at which point it is a case of the good old 'man cook meat, provide for family, ugg' bit.
As an interesting aside, I have yet to see a female cook/waitress etc in any restaurant/lokanta/whatever.

Thanks for clearing that up. Do men expect there wives to cook for them, or do they often cook too?

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I agree with selamlar, I'd go with a roast chicken dinner chicken or perhaps roast lamb with rosemary, roast potatoes, veggies and all the trimmings, i.e. stuffing or mint sauce.

Or lemon and garlic chicken, get some chicken legs or thighs, lightly crush some garlic cloves, put in a very lightly oiled oven dish, lay the pieces of chicken on top of the garlic, drizzle a bit more olive oil on top. Cut a couple of lemons in half and lightly squeeze the juice over the chicken, put the lemon halves in the oven dish with the chicken. If you and your chap drink alcohol, pour a glass of white wine into the oven dish, although if you don't drink alcohol add a cup of veggie or chicken stock, otherwise it will dry out.

Serve with a green salad and some new potatoes either boiled or drizzled with olive oil and baked in the oven.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

if he's turkish why is bothered about things being spicy? it makes no sense.

make him toad in the hole, looks good and piece of piss to make. Also quintessentially english.


dave

I don't think turkish food's spicy, it's all houmous and feta and stuff iirc...