John Can Cook!

One night, a week or two ago, while I was cooking dinner, John was being very bossy. I can't remember what about, but he was trying to tell me how to prepare part of the meal and I felt like I already knew how to do it. My solution to said bossiness was to tell him that he would be cooking dinner the next night.

I have known John to not put a lot of effort into every day meals. He likes making nice meals for dinner parties, but on an average weeknight he is likely to eat pesto pasta (something I got tired of eating shortly after we started dating). I was pretty sure my plan of rewarding his bossiness with cooking duty was going to backfire on me and I would end up eating something I didn't really want to.

But John surprised me by getting stir fry ingredients from the co-op. We did have to take a taxi to Asda that night to buy a wok since the stir fry would not fit in any of our pans. But we finally had delicious food. Since then we have gotten a lot of use out of the wok and John's stir fry just gets fancier. He has learned how to make fried rice and lightly breaded chicken!

Now we share cooking duties. But John is still bossy. Especially when he is cooking. If I am anywhere near the kitchen I get put to work chopping peppers or tossing things into the wok. Ending up with a good meal makes it kind of hard to complain though.