Cooking issue

Women:

Alot of us have all got busy schedules/careers/houseworks e.t.c ,but how do we do it? how do you do your cooking on sundays? Alot of us go to church services that could last for hours and by the time we get home, we are baggard and just wanna lay down and sleep, or sit on a nice rekliner chair , with our legs lifted up and sipping red wine but we can't most of the time because we have to cook.

What do you do when you get back from service? go straight to the kitchen and start cooking or eat out?

As for me, I try to cook heaps on saturdays(i.e stew, fried rice,jollof rice,and soups) and just stuck them up in the freezer and warm them up whenever we wanna eat. If I cook stew all I do is warm the stew up and boil rice in a rice cooker,and I find these alot easier to do as it takes little time

But there are days I don't just feel up to it and we eat out and Baba Kadry doesn't mind, infact all he does is drives us there when he knows I am worn out. Ofcourse I won't even suggest we dine outside because na who go pay meal money? . He is also a good cook and cooks alot too.

So women,when and how do you do your own cooking?


MEN: How and when do you want your partners(spouses, Gf's) to do cooking?can you do chinese or take her some other place when you know she's like too tired to cook?or do you do cooking yourself?

Cooking can be very tiring but i'm sure i'l adopt the style my mommie takes.
After work every friday, she'l go to the main market and buy small stuff for soup and stew and on saturday she'l start quite early and make about 3 different soups, stew and attimes even beans. Pack everything into the freezer and during the week all we do is warm and eat.
Boiling yam and white rice, making garri and frying yam aint too tasking.
My daddy cant even put the cooker on. Lol

The men should be willing to take their family out when the wifey isnt disposed to do kitchen stuff or they should help in there as well

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I'm gonna be a romantic hubby, I'll do d cooking wen she's tired, I'm not d churchy type(1 hr service is ok) so I could as well take over cooking on sundays. If we r both tired, bleep d cooking- we gon find some 5 star hotel and mk do wit watever dey have.

@chaircover that Asli rice is the best rice in the market biko,my hubby now finds it difficult to eat any other rice.

Asli rice? I wonder if I can find that in the US. I do my cooking on Tuesdays. Stews, jollof rice, pasta and sometimes fried rice. I also make Lasagna but I don't do that from scratch. My boys love pasta or anything saucy so to them pounded yam with tonnes of soup is like dinner in a 5 star restaurant. You can also buy white yams(sweet potatoes) and slice them ready to fry, put them in ziploc bags and freeze them or if you are going to use it within a day or two you can leave them in the regular referigerator. You can make your garden egg sauce too and it will stay for 2 or 3 days. My husband eats anything he sees and it is not even unusual for him to eat something else. He is a good cook too so I am not the only cook in the home. It makes things easier for my me because I don't worry that the boys do not have a balanced diet just because I am working or something. You can also make things like meatpie because if you are running late for anything you can just throw a meatpie at them to entertain themselves until everything else is ready. I used to bake and when I started gaining weight and nobody else was I finally admitted that I was baking the cakes for myself. LOL. Find healthy alternatives to home cooked foods and have healthy snacks available. It's also great to eat out once in a while. At the end of the day soups and stews are your best friend.

The problem I have is that my husband does not eat food from the freezer. Once the stew or soup is more than two days it is old
I cook the Nigerian food and my kids cook the other things. I really would never on my own accord even make spaghetti.
I cook when I feel up to eat and sometimes it has to be things that go really fast. I also cook pretty fast and clean up after me.When my SIL comes to visit she spends the whole day in the kitchen cooking that really baffles me. Only time you can get me cooking so long is when I am cooking for a function.

Lol mutter my dad is like that, does not eat soup that is 3 days old ooo. So you cook like almost every other day?


@CC
That rice no dey here oooo

@Outstrip

Does your hubby like swallow food? ( eba,fufu and co)

This is why I only date women that can cook --- I don't have the time to think about all this stuff.

jennykadry:

Lol mutter my dad is like that, does not eat soup that is 3 days old ooo. So you cook like almost every other day?


@CC
That rice no dey here oooo

@Outstrip

Does your hubby like swallow food? ( eba,fufu and co)

LOL. Heck no. He says it will make him fat and it is high in cholesterol. Every once in a while he will though but it is rare. I think it would be different if we were in Nigeria. Maybe if it is the actual pounded yam that is pounded rather than the processed one we do on the stove he might think differently. He is very conscious of everything he eats. In fact he is proud when he goes to work and skips lunch and just snacks on peanuts. He takes a lot of pride in keeping fit.

jennykadry:

Lol mutter my dad is like that, does not eat soup that is 3 days old ooo. So you cook like almost every other day?


@CC
That rice no dey here oooo

@Outstrip

Does your hubby like swallow food? ( eba,fufu and co)

Yes that is the problem I have, constantly cooking.
But now my family is so large. 12 mouths when no one stops by, so cooking for more than two days is not possible. Two large a volume. These food monsters can devour 3 kg os Spaghetti in a day .Rice is just as bad.
I need to fry like 3-4 chicken at a time. It is real work.

I cook and I enjoy it. I even experiment a lot.

Trained by the best cook that ever existed in the world - My late Grandmother (how I miss her)