Reading the dating ideas thread....

I *can* cook.  But I'm not married either, never have been.

Maybe it's not cooking ability.  :\ 

It's not that I can't cook.....it's that I don't want to.  And now I don't have to - since I caught my husband and pulled the old bait and switch on him! 

I will admit, the one thing that my STBEW taught me was how to recognize a couple of simple ingredients, add some spices or sauce, and assemble into a solid meal.

I don't have great presentation skills and I don't make really high quality gourmet items but its not too hard to assemble something simple.

One of my favorite items to make is Spinach salad w/ chicken.  Fresh Spinach, grilled chicken breast, crumbled bleu cheese, dried cranberries, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar.

I believe that its never about how fancy your food looks, but just that it tastes good and shows that you put in the effort.

pigfinn - 2006-12-08 11:28 AM

coredump - 2006-12-08 12:13 PM

I *can* cook.  But I'm not married either, never have been.

Maybe it's not cooking ability.  :\ 

hey I see you are in Chicago area... do you belong to the Chicago tri club? Wondering how I'm going to get open water swim practices in this Spring, hmmmmmmmmmmmm??? I'm new to tri's

EASY there young lady.  He said he wasn't married.....  What about spoken for?? (and NOT by me....stop it!!!)

I can cook. 
Ex-BF didn't like my cooking and criticized. 
Ex-BF cannot cook.
We broke up.

Now I don't bother to cook.
Current BF cooks. 

tupuppy - 2006-12-08 1:55 PM

pigfinn - 2006-12-08 11:28 AM

coredump - 2006-12-08 12:13 PM

I *can* cook.  But I'm not married either, never have been.

Maybe it's not cooking ability.  :\ 

hey I see you are in Chicago area... do you belong to the Chicago tri club? Wondering how I'm going to get open water swim practices in this Spring, hmmmmmmmmmmmm??? I'm new to tri's

EASY there young lady.  He said he wasn't married.....  What about spoken for?? (and NOT by me....stop it!!!)

Sheesh, I didn't think she was coming on to him (although who wouldn't? - blond kona boy!) just asking for info on swimming in this area. 

Besides, with all of us tri-dads on this site I think there's what, like 6 single guys?  And two of them are spokes and oneword. 

Which reminds me of a "cooking for your date" story:

My best friend had just started dating this guy and she was ga ga over him.  On their 3rd or 4th date, he was going to surprise her and cook for her.  He spent a lot of time and effort putting together this delicious Italian meal - salad, bread, wine, and pasta with red sauce and mushrooms.  And not just a few, but just smothered in mushrooms.........guess where I am going?  The ONE and ONLY food on this earth that my girfriend will NOT eat - and borders on the maniacal about it is mushrooms!  She hates them SO much that one year I just HAD to get her a mushroom of the month subscription for a gag gift.  Most people when in such a situation, would perhaps be willing to gag down whatever food item the person was nice enough to make them....but she just could not, and had to tell him she wouldn't be eating the sauce. So the moral of the story - cooking for her as a surprise is very sweet - but be SURE you know she  will like what you are cooking.

He wasn't too upset, they ended up getting married.  For eight months.  Poor girl. Mushrooms must have been an omen.

That being the crux of the high-level humor that hangloose was throwing out there...

morey1 - 2006-12-08 3:31 PM

spokes - 2006-12-08 2:17 PM

Actually oneword USED to be my user name and now its spokes

That being the crux of the high-level humor that hangloose was throwing out there...

oh, heck ... bwa-ha-ha-ha-ah!  ROFLMAO.

Yes, Scott, salad counts!  An Uncrustable on a paper plate counts if the luv is there!