On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:21:28 -0800 (PST), Food Snob® wrote:

> On Dec 3, 9:51*am, blake murphy > wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:38:44 -0800 (PST), Food Snob® wrote:
>>> On Dec 2, 4:21*pm, sf > wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:54:00 -0800 (PST), Food Snob®
>>
>>>>>One thing that's going to make that easier is my wife's decision to
>>>>>become a cooking person too.
>>
>>>> That's nice. *Hopefully you aren't as judgmental about her cooking at
>>>> home as you appear to be here. *No matter how bad it is, pretend you
>>>> like it... if you can't say anything nice about the food, at least
>>>> tell her how much you appreciate her effort and how long she spent
>>>> making it. *It's hard being a beginner cook and your cooking ego can
>>>> be easily bruised (to the point of giving up) by too much criticism.
>>
>>> 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. *Almost
>>> all of my negative remarks have to do with crappy ingredients, garbage
>>> in, garbage out. *She's starting from a background of baking from
>>> scratch. *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. *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.
>>
>>> --Bryan
>>
>> did you horsewhip her in the front yard, so the neighbors could take a
>> lesson from it as well?
>
> And give desperate old farts like you a sexual kick? I don't think
> so.

i'm not the callow young punk who seems to be a control freak.

blake