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  1. Jul 23, 2017 #1
    Nonya

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    What Ina Garten taught me about food, love, and life

    A TV cooking show auntie, Ina Garten, contends that “If someone ever criticizes a meal you’ve made for them, it’s over.” This is all well, and good, in a phoren culture, where couples are in a probationary marriage, and she can uninvite him for all future meals.

    In an indian home, when a wife had toiled in the kitchen to produce (what she thinks is) a nice dinner, and during/after the meal she asks the silent chomper-husband, "how's everything?", what should he say ?
    • hide true feelings, and compliment
    • offer specifics on how to improve
    • recall his mother/sister's equivalent dishes, and contrast
    • change topic and compliment her looks
    • what else ?
    Is it too stressful for the dh to come up with new and novel ways of offering reviews of dw's cooking ?

    In our household, we seem to have technical conversations about Calories, as well as how photogenic the serving is. Apparently we had exhausted all the possible variations on the comment about many of the typical nonya dishes.:relaxed:

    What does your food critic say about your cooking ?
     
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  2. Jul 23, 2017 #2
    Naari

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    Haha, good topic:tearsofjoy: If there is one thing that Dh has learned over the years, it is to unfailingly appreciate the food at the first bite :tongueclosed: So much so that sometimes, the compliment comes out before the food goes in :lol::roflmao:I have to say "pehle kha to lo"!!:biggrin:
     
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    justanothergirl

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    He has the following options
    a .Its good
    b .Its very good
    c. its very very good.
    d. All of the above at diff times during the meal.
    Lets just say DH is a very wise man who likes to be invited to all the meals :smilingimp:
     
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    Sandycandy

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    A) Be honest but be prepared to sleep on the couch
    B) Lie but continue eating slightly tasteless food
    C) Learn to cook !

    DH knows A) will land him in trouble , so mostly sticks to B ) but has also started with C)
     
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    Ha ha.. fun thread!

    At this point in married life, "my" dishes always come out good. Even on their "bad hair" day, their state is quite edible. If it is a new one I've tried, using a new recipe or new appliance (IP, air fryer, skillet, oven...) then we have the recipe or appliance to blame it on.

    Earlier on - if I recall right, he's always given unvarnished review. Couple of times I got really mad.. and gave it back as I cleared the table and loaded the dishwasher more loudly than needed. : ) It was not the review itself that bothered me, it was the accompanying 'how to improve the dish' suggestion. : )
     
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    :wink: My DH is more worried about 'time to eat' than what he gets to eat!
     
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    Wife: So, how's dinner?:cheer:
    Gallant Husband: Sweetheart, if you were to put it on a plate, I would eat poison with pleasure!:D
    Wife: Are you saying my food is like poison?:rage:
    Husband: That's not what I meant!
    Wife: Why do you always say stuff like this?:sleepy:
    Husband: I was trying to pay you a compliment!:confundio1:
    Wife: Calling my food poison seems funny to you?
    Husband: :hmmm::facepalm::BangHead:
     
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    :roflmao:Good one!
     
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    Such a fun thread!!
     
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    coffeecups

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    As soon as I make something new or even if it's an old recipe which I consider has come out exceptionally well, I look expectantly at dh.
    He once told me that, if the h is eating without asking is there anything else to go with this dish, it means the dish is good enough. If he opens his mouth and says, it tastes good, it means it's exceptional.
     
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