Re: Good Wife = Good Cook
Why don't more girls learn to cook when they are young? My children have been helping me in the kitchen since they were tall enough to stand on a stool and stir the cookie dough. As a result my teenage son makes excellent salan and better roti than I do. I never bought into this "my children are studying so they can't cook/clean/do manual labor.
Why don't more girls learn to cook when they are young? My children have been helping me in the kitchen since they were tall enough to stand on a stool and stir the cookie dough. As a result my teenage son makes excellent salan and better roti than I do. I never bought into this "my children are studying so they can't cook/clean/do manual labor.
I agree amana. My parents did this with us, and as a result, my poor hubby had frequent stomach aches for the first few months of our marriage :(
Oh well, it's a lesson learnt, and now i know better for when my daughters grow up. Cooking is an essential life skill, so i think parents should help their children to familiarise themselves with it at a young age.
Yep. I'm all for child labour.
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^ I'm very much in favor of child labor :) I have three teenagers, one in elementary school, my in-laws, and a full-time job, so without child labor I am pretty much sunk since my MIL doesn't cook very often.
Why don't more girls learn to cook when they are young? My children have been helping me in the kitchen since they were tall enough to stand on a stool and stir the cookie dough. As a result my teenage son makes excellent salan and better roti than I do. I never bought into this** "my children are studying so they can't cook/clean/do manual labor.**
I think each generation of parents come with same thinking... our parents thought that since we study - it would be best not to put us in the kitchen.
At least my mom use to think that if I have good education, great job, then I would be able to HIRE a cook and extra help!! Just like RICH people have help back home.
.. but little did my mother know - that in USA there is no freaking help!
so yes, I am educated, with a great job, but I am also a chef everyday!
LOL
.. but I have learned that it's very important to learn to cook from early age - not just so you can feed your future hubby - but because it truly makes you INDEPENDENT!
I encourage both my daughter and son to help out with the INGREDIENTS when they are hanging out in the kitchen sometimes.
Oh God yes - am doing the same with future-kids of mine. Excellent thinking ladies 
lol I think the same thing…
I think we both need to step over to the cookin forum…
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Yes CE - we do.
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^Seriosly straight_up I get a headache just thinking about it, cooking is soooo boring 
Yes, it seems boring now because we have other hot topics to discuss and things to do and people to see. So, at this point, standing in the kitchen and stirring for 20 minutes is unbearable. But, soon times, that will be the centre of our life and damn, I’m not prepared or disciplined enough for it. Or so I feel.
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^thnx for tht straight_up now I too feel
p.s. im picking up my dress tomorrow…excited! excited!
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It is extremely important for the girl to know how to cook or at least learn once she gets married.
I also think however that the husband should know how to cook as well. A lot of husbands know how to cook but still expect the wife to cook 24/7...this is backwards and unfair.
In today's society where both men and women work full time, I think it's only fair that the duties be shared....and off course as women we have to accept that it will never be 50/50....but even 60/40 would be great.
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Okay ladies here is the latest: 
My mom has been in the hospital for past couple days and today I was home alone and made my very first unsupervised chicken curry. I was less nervous because if I totally messed it up, no one need knowing 
but ladies, I didn’t do too terribly 
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^^ forgot to mention “thanks to Shaan/Laziza masala and their recipe”??
forget about cooking... just learn to pat him well, u will be fine
LOL
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if ur husband is a food lover obviously ur being a good cook will b really imp.n then there r husbands who love inviting friends over n inform their wives right in time.Again its a matter of honor u hav to prove ur cooking skills or u'll b called on ur back as a horrible cook:) So yes i think moms should train kids at young age to learn to cook.we hav few friends who hardly dine out n they say"my wife cooks so well so y eat outside"now if u eat outside more n hav such family friends they can easily make u n ur partner feel bad
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Straight_up, let me just say it will take a very special kind of man to marry you. I would like to think that the man you choose to marry will attracted to your wit, your astuteness and your no-nonsense personality. He is likely to focus on the bigger picture, your personality, your generosity and how you treat those around you.
I feel like I know you, and I know you're not going to marry a man who will be unhappy with his wife just because she's not Top Chef material her first day in the kitchen. Furthermore, from what I can gather about you, you'll be flipping chappatti's in no time. You'll be that aunty who knows all the shortcuts in cooking and has dinner started before changing out of her work heels.
I know we all have our insecurities, and I'm laughing that this is yours. There's not much else wrong with you, is there!?
Anyway, believe me, he'll be so smitten with you it will hardly matter.
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it important that the girl knows how to cook because most of the time food keeps the husband happy..... they always say way to a mans heart is through the stomach.....
Straight_up, let me just say it will take a very special kind of man to marry you. I would like to think that the man you choose to marry will attracted to your wit, your astuteness and your no-nonsense personality. He is likely to focus on the bigger picture, your personality, your generosity and how you treat those around you.
I feel like I know you, and I know you're not going to marry a man who will be unhappy with his wife just because she's not Top Chef material her first day in the kitchen. Furthermore, from what I can gather about you, you'll be flipping chappatti's in no time. You'll be that aunty who knows all the shortcuts in cooking and has dinner started before changing out of her work heels.
I know we all have our insecurities, and I'm laughing that this is yours. There's not much else wrong with you, is there!?
Anyway, believe me, he'll be so smitten with you it will hardly matter.
Straight up - If I were a guy I would def marry you :)
^^This, ladies and gentlemen, should go in the compliments thread :D- main reason being - I look upto to both of them, they’re Quality Women. Thank you.
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WHY DON'T MEN LEARN TO COOK AND GIVE US A BREAK!!!!!!