{"id":1439,"date":"2015-06-12T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T23:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T23:12:39","slug":"i-dont-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/12\/i-dont-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postaday for June 12th:\u00a0Ingredients<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>What\u2019s the one item in your kitchen you can\u2019t possibly cook without? A spice, your grandma\u2019s measuring cup, instant ramen \u2014 what\u2019s your magic ingredient, and why?<\/em><\/p>\n

My wife does all the cooking. She\u2019s good at it, and she likes it. Sometimes she asks me to grill things. Sometimes she asks me to chop things. And\/or put them in a pot. And sometimes stir. And sometimes add other ingredients. On occasion she\u2019ll give me a recipe and ask me to prep it for her, or do the middle part, or finish it, or all three. Which I do, but, I don\u2019t cook. She does all the cooking.<\/p>\n

Usually I\u2019m the one who goes to grocery store. My wife does all the meal planning, unless I do it\u2014 but it\u2019s better when she does it, since she does all the cooking. She\u2019ll send me to the store with a list, and on those occasions when I go without a list, or go without her asking me to go, I end up getting the kinds of things she needs to cook our meals.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s also how I handle it when she doesn\u2019t have a meal planned, and I end up going to the store anyway, and bringing things home for her to cook. Or if I\u2019m going to get a recipe started that she didn\u2019t know about, since she winds up cooking it anyway. Or a recipe I follow all the way through. Still, she\u2019s the cook.<\/p>\n

The one item that gets me through all of this is Pandora. I put Pandora on the iPad or my mobile with a pair of headphones, or on the TV. I like to listen to mellow, minimalist music when I\u2019m helping my wife when she does all the cooking. Today, for example, she\u2019s going to be stuck in traffic, so I\u2019m going to get everything ready for her.<\/p>\n

At about five o\u2019clock (we tend to eat early, go to bed early, get up early) I\u2019ll put Pandora on the TV. A station based off a band called The Sound Defects (bands like Bonobo, Time Machine, Gramatik, Wax Tailor instrumentals, and so on). I\u2019ll get some green peppers out so she can make stuffed peppers. I\u2019ll cut the tops off and scoop out the insides.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll brown some meat and chop some onions for her to add to the meat. If traffic is really bad (like it often is on a Friday) I\u2019ll add the spices for her, shred some cheese. If she needs me to, I can put the meat combo into the pepper, and start the oven for her to bake them. Sometimes when she gets home she\u2019s exhausted from the commute, so if need\u2019s be, I can put the stuffed peppers into the oven. She might ask me to help her prepare them by checking to see if they\u2019re nearly done. Then I can switch on the broiler, let them brown a bit, top them with the shredded cheese. I can do those things for her because she\u2019s an amazing cook.<\/p>\n

And since I don\u2019t cook, it\u2019s only fair that I do the dishes. She tells me this pretty much every time. But that\u2019s okay because I\u2019ve got that Pandora playing in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postaday for June 12th:\u00a0Ingredients.\u00a0What\u2019s the one item in your kitchen you can\u2019t possibly cook without? A spice, your grandma\u2019s measuring cup, instant ramen \u2014 what\u2019s your magic ingredient, and why? My wife does all the cooking. She\u2019s good at it, and she likes it. Sometimes she asks me to grill things. Sometimes she asks me … <\/p>\n

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