On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:38:44 -0800 (PST), Food Snob®
> wrote:

>I'm not going to lie to her. She understands that there are a lot of
>things that I just don't like, though they're perfectly good.

You two have been married long enough for her to figure out the basics
of where you two agree on food and be able to head in that direction.
As far as new ingredients, it's a learning curve for both of you.

>Almost
>all of my negative remarks have to do with crappy ingredients, garbage
>in, garbage out.

She sounds pickier to me than you are, you're just more vocal about
your views. Not sure how you two could be together so long and not
have a common agreement about the meaning of "crap" in both of your
lexicons.

>She's starting from a background of baking from scratch.

That's great!

>We haven't had in our pantry veg short, margarine, canned
>soup intended for use as anything but soup, artificial choc chips,
>etc. in decades.

I would hope so. <scratching head> Artificial chocolate chips???

>The one time I came down pretty hard was when I'd
>brought home a pot roast and ran out of time to start it. She had
>said she thought it would be good with wine in it and I told her that
>neither me or our son would want to eat it then. She put it in
>anyway, and quite a bit of beef went to waste because it was way to
>much for her, and as I'd said, my son and I disliked it.

I remember that issue, but I'm still wondering why you had to throw it
out. Dump the sauce and use the beef in something else. Couldn't you
make soup at the very least?

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.