“YOU HAVE NEVER COOKED FOOD FOR ME NEVER.”
I was surprised to hear Gary make this claim this morning, but I was on my way to work, and he was moaning how long it takes him to make his special blueberry chicken.
I had just offered to cook it for him, which provoked the remark above.
I leapt to my own defense. “Brisket.” I said. “Quiche. Chicken Brioche. Cooking on the weekend so I wouldn’t be tired after work. Forty years. Where are you coming up with this?”
“THOSE WERE THINGS YOU WERE ALREADY COOKING FOR YOURSELF AND I ASKED YOU TO MAKE MORE FOR ME.”
Fair. I don’t think I stated explicitly before a meal that I was making US these TWO pork chops. Perhaps he worried I planned to sit in front of him and eat both leaving him to starve, unless he plaintively begged for food. If that was the unspoken arrangement you assumed then god, man, complain before forty years in.
2 responses to “A surprising claim from Gary”
… wait, the blueberry chicken was not a one-off thing that he has now revised into something sane and reasonable? It got improvised and now it is codified? Or is it still improvised chicken+stuff, whatever he happens to get that fits within the dietary restrictions?
But also, yes, when you cook real food for two people for however-many years, in general, unless there’s something easy to make that one person absolutely LOVES that the other person loathes or cannot eat, or unless there are major dietary restrictions, it’s going to be… for two people, whatever you cook, basically. (with the exceptions of Sick Food or of things that are short-order cook single-serving-ish like eggs; I ate over-easy, spouse ate broken-yolk-fried-hard, we both thought the other’s preferred way was ewww but it doesn’t matter because you’re going to be cooking two pairs of eggs sequentially anyway, usually, and it’s easy enough to do?)
KC – Just today he made a new batch. Apples, pears, apple juice, Brussels sprouts, chicken and sweet potatoes. Blueberries on the side. The chicken was brown though, and he said it was because he burnt the apple juice.