June 14, 2011

Did your wife know how to cook when you got married?

Marie wasn’t an experienced cook like her mother was but she was not new o it as well. She has always cooked special meals for me and us. She did have some lessons on how to use our new $800 or more Microwave that we got about two years after they had started on the consumer market. It was a great microwave and really changed the way we cooked and had meals. Baked potato meals became so easy after that and we did that quite often. Cakes became easy to make as well but we did revert to using the conventional oven for cooking them after a few months.  It has been interesting however thinking about our changes in eating habits over the years. We had Chicken Pot pies fairly regular during the first few years and Cambells tomato soup was used quite regularly. We then had different dinners that became a stable for a few years and then we moved on to something else. I think quite often as we go shopping now about the things that we used to buy every time we went and how we now don’t even seem to look at them.

Did you have any cooking disasters?

The only cooking disasters that I can remember are when for Thanksgiving we had a pressure cooker spew it’s contents of carrot pudding all over the ceiling. The only other one that really sticks out in my mind (during which I was not home to see) was when Marie put a potato in the microwave for three minutes and then went to shower and then upon discovering went running through the house in her birthday suit to get the charred smoking remains of the potato out of the microwave  and into the great outdoors since it had not stopped after the three minutes, it might have even gone thirty minutes.