An exotic food remains exotic only as long as you do not prepare it at home !

An exotic food is something which you do not prepare routinely at home. To eat it , we usually go to restaurants. I have my own list of exotic foods. Seeing me, relishing them so much in restaurants, my wife planned to make them at home. One such recipe is Manchurian dry. She bought gobi , finely grated ginger, Manchurian sauce, hajinomoto etc, spent around two hours in downloading the recipe from various sites. And finally made it. Having read, from several threads, that wives direly expect the husbands to appreciate their culinary skills liberally, I too appreciated the new recipe, and ate it too. Then, she started trying one by one, my next favourite exotic recipe, that is dum biriyani !



Oops ! Not again ! She trying painstakingly to please me, by spending hours together and finally me failing to appreciate it and being labelled as an ‘insensitive husband’. Fearing this, I appreciated this also.


Then she planned the third one !



My God ! Enough is enough ! How would I dare to tell her that an exotic dish remains exotic, only as long as you don’t make it home-made ! Finally, I mustered the courage and told it to her, before she attempted my third favourite exotic recipe !
She was greatly upset that I fail to understand how much she cares for me ! ‘She cares for me so much, that is why she is making all those exotic foods at home’, that is what her perception is !



Alas ! unfortunately, that was certainly not my perception, though I pretended to be happy and pretended to be appreciatory after she made them ! My perception is and exotic recipe should not be attempted at home. It should be eaten at restaurants only. Having known my perception, she was upset for about a few minutes. Then, I had to tell her, it is the late evening two-some two wheeler outing, after making our son sleep at home, going to a restaurant, ordering the exotic recipe, tasting it with a nice conversation !



I enjoy the two some togetherness in the outing , the exotic environment in the restaurant that adds a sense of novelty to the food, the different taste, a long conversation, she being free from the tiredness of having to spend hours together in kitchen and thus a fine end to the day, back home.

Two lessons , many wives have to learn :

1. The exotic food would remain ‘exotic’ only if you do not attempt it at home.
2. Though I can not speak on behalf of the entire male community, I can vouch with certainty, that there would be tens of thousands of husbands like me who can’t be impressed by wives' culinary skills !

Next time, when you plan a big /exotic meal to impress your husband, just be sure, if he is genuinely impressed by your culinary skills. And do not put him into the predicament of having to make a fake appreciation !



What may be a very special way of conveying care, may not be so for him ! His thought process may be different from yours !


Good Luck !

 

Here is the list of my exotic dishes :

1) veg Manchurian dry

2) chicken hot sour soup

3) Dum biriyani (both veg and non-veg)

4) Mutton Seek Khabab

 

Okay ! But, where did I put her down. The point I made to her and to you guys is, what is a special and nice way of conveying care in the form of making a favourite dish may not be perceived in the same way by some husbands.

 

Interesting ! I am waiting !