Experience of preparing food on your own

@roshigo58 (4856)
Pune, India
March 9, 2013 2:20am CST
Hi, My son's friend is living separately due to his job here. but he can cook food. After going back to his flat he prepares, Rice, chapati, dal, vegetable. My wife is suffering from muscular dystrophy so we have a maid servant to cook. She always come to our house in the morning and prepare chapati and vegetable. My wife cut vegetable. But I and my son have to prepare something additional like rice or salad etc. For this also we feel bored. We can cook but we don't like to cook. It is very appreciating that my son's friend doesn't feel bored. He has to cook and then wash all the dishes and utensils and all cleaning process after preparing food. On Sunday we have invited him to come to our house for lunch. Do you like to cook? This question is specially for men.
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@leateagee (3667)
• China
12 Mar 13
You are such good people. I mean young people who are doing their best away from their families need to be support. The invite you did made him feel great and close to a family.
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@leateagee (3667)
• China
13 Mar 13
That's too bad. Maybe you could invite him again.
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@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
13 Mar 13
Hi, We invited him on Sunday but he could not come. His two wheeler is given for servicing and he got it in the evening. He is staying far away from our house. Thank you for the response.
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@yanzalong (19091)
• Indonesia
9 Mar 13
your son's friend js very helpful and kind. He does not mind cooking for you and your family. How kind he is!
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@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
9 Mar 13
Hi, There is some misunderstanding. My son's friend cooks for himself and not for us. We have invited him for the lunch in our house. Thank you for the response.
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@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
9 Mar 13
Hi, He has purchased his own flat and his parents gave him all the utensils necessary for cooking.
@jenny1015 (13359)
• Philippines
9 Mar 13
When I was younger, I have all the energy to cook all the time even if I was working for 7 days in a week. I could even cook atleast a 6-course meal good for 30 people during any of my family member's birthday. But lately, I feel so tired doing it all the time. So basically now I just cook breakfast and lunch. As for the dinner, we would sometimes just buy cooked food from our neighbors.
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
9 Mar 13
Hi, When I was younger I didn't have to cook anything because I have two elder sisters and my mother used to cook for us with the help of my sisters. In our culture generally girls are taught all the household works so that they can take care of their family after marriage. So I am the only son and so I was enjoying my life. But now I think everyone should know how to cook whether he is girl or a boy. Thank you for the response.
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
9 Mar 13
Hi, I am 54 years old.
@olliekobra1 (1825)
9 Mar 13
i love to cook its one of my favourate hobbies, i like to experiment with different flavours and try to cook different types of food. Its nice to go to the shops and buy all of the ingrediants, wash the different vegtables do the preparation and then cook all of the food from scatch. Cooking from scratch is a skill but its worth it.
10 Mar 13
thank you for your kind comments. i have always enjoyed cooking i work long hours and get days off in the week so when my girlfriend comes home i like to surprise her by cooking a nice meal. I love to experiment with different types of food i can cook, English, Indian, Mexican and chinease i think that home made cooking always taste better.
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
10 Mar 13
Hi, It's very nice that you love cooking. So you are self dependent. You are not dependent on anyone for cooking. Thank you for the response.
@else22 (4317)
• India
9 Mar 13
I am a guy.I am sorry to say I can't cook.Although I tried my best to learn the skill and my wife and sisters tried their best to train me,but I could learn nothing.I can't prepare even a cup of tea or coffee.I consider it is a big minus point with me.If you know how to cook,you can save a lot of money that is spent in hotels and restaurants.Cooking is a skill and we men too should learn it.It helps us to be self dependent.
@else22 (4317)
• India
9 Mar 13
I will try to learn the cooking.I know cooking is a great skill and it makes us independent.This realization,I think,may help me develop the enthusiasm in me to learn the skill.Thanks for comment.I assure you,I will learn the skill sooner or later.
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
9 Mar 13
Hi, You should try to make at least tea. You are right. Every man should learn to cook. Cooking is not an easy job. Cooking helps men to be independent. Thank you for the response.
@blackrusty (3519)
• Mexico
9 Mar 13
I am thankful to my mom she taught me to cook when I was like 10 and I have spent many great years cooking all kinds of foods from around the world it is great that this young man knows how to cook and every person should know how to cook
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
9 Mar 13
hi, you are also great. You can cook food since the age of 10. At this I was enjoying life. no tension except studying. But you are right. Every person should know to cook. thank you for the response.
• Mexico
9 Mar 13
well I am the oldest of 5 kids and my parents worked both full time jobs so I did food and watched the younger kids till one of them woke up or come home from work it has made me a better person in my life i think
@wolfie34 (26770)
• United Kingdom
10 Mar 13
I have never enjoyed cooking and this coming from a guy, it's a case of can't cook, won't cook. However that's not to say that I buy take-aways all the time I don't! I eat healthily, but that doesn't involve cooking, I am far too impatient to spend hours concocting a menu for just me. I am a great lover of salads, and salads are so easily prepared, all you have to do is wash them and serve! No waiting time. I don't like microwaved meals either. I will pop something in the oven but it's from the supermarket. I did cook myself an omelette tonight when I got back from the gym but that took 10 minutes, nice, easy and quick, healthy and very tasty. oh and no chips with it!
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
10 Mar 13
Hi, I also like salads. Buying food from outside is costly. Omelet is easy to cook and need no time to cook. Thank you for the response.
@sylvia13 (1850)
• Nelson Bay, Australia
10 Mar 13
Whether male or female, I think in this age, everybody should learn how to prepare food and wash up after themselves too!
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
10 Mar 13
Hi, you are right. Everyone should know how to cook. Thank you for the response.
@ptrikha_2 (49775)
• India
22 Mar 13
Well, while I cannot make many things for eating in the kitchen. Yet, there are a few things that I can make like Tea, a few vegetables, and chapatis(wheat flour rolled bread). I do not need to make them mostly. Yet, if needed I can make these things. They might not taste nice to everyone, but when I eat the things I make myself, I like them very much.
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
22 Mar 13
hi, It is very nice that you can make vegetables, tea and chapatis. Thus you are not dependent on others for food. You can cook this food whenever needed. Thank you for the response.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
11 Mar 13
Being that I'm not a man, I am not the one that this discussion was aimed at. However, it does remind me of my husband before the two of us met and then shortly after we started dating. He not only knows how to cook, it is also something that doesn't bother him to do occasionally. Now, however, I am typically expected to cook because I am the one that is at home all day long. He volunteers to cook about once every week or two.
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
11 Mar 13
hi, you are lucky that your husband likes to cook. You get the chance to eat the food every week. thank you for the response.
@alberello (4752)
• Italy
9 Mar 13
Well, you have completed your discussion with this question: "Do you like to cook? This question is specially for men.". Well I'm a man of almost 38 years and I have to tell you that unfortunately for you my answer to your question is negative in the sense that I do not like to cook. However, I know, however, arrange, with food. Or, rather, when I live alone, for a certain period of time, certainly not rest dry mouth, I cook for myself, and I must say that I have always gotten. But what I eat in the end? Well, classic pasta with butter or oil, and dish of something already prepared bought in the store. This unfortunately means that I spend more money than necessary. But still I do not feel right to work in the kitchen! However, I emphasize the fact that I dishes of the family, wash them willingly! This is to help my mom.
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
9 Mar 13
Hi, alberello, It is very nice that you help your mother in cleaning dishes willingly. It is also important work. Thank you for the response. Hi,dodoazo, When my wife was normal I only can cook rice, dal and salad and nothing else. But now I am going to become expert in cooking under my wife's direction.
@WakeUpKitty (8691)
• Netherlands
9 Mar 13
Yes I like cooking although it does take me a lot of energy and I mostly like to cook for others. I am not such a big eater so even think that if I would be alone I would seldom cook. What you and your son can do is cook every .. day and cook more. Perhaps you have a freezer or you can put what is left over in the fridge and eat is next day or 2-3 days later. The food will stay fine.
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
10 Mar 13
Hi, Thank you for the good suggestion. we will cook food with more quantity and keep it in the fridge which will be useful for us for 2-3 days.
• India
9 Mar 13
Hi friend, good to hear about your son's friend,. His activity is right, we must know cooking and do it with our full interest, cooking is a great art. I know cooking well and interested in it. Every weekends i will cook food in my home and serve it for my family members.
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
10 Mar 13
Hi, your wife is very lucky as you cook every week end and serve your family. It is very nice. It is very helpful for you for increasing healthy relations in family. Thank you for the response.
• India
11 Mar 13
I do not know cooking and my gender is male.I tried a few times, but then patience and natural interest in cooking was not there.I think more or less my reason in not learning or understanding has been lack of interest.Another reason, i think i have lost interest in cooking is because i have been staying alone for a considerable amount of time and has not had the fun of trying things out as i felt its boring.And the easy availability of home delivery and variety of things deterred me even further.I tried a few times while in college and when i went abroad, only to realize that i had enough failures to get away from it.But then i do wash my clothes, which i currently do with help of washing machine.For food, i used to earlier depend on my friends and room mates.i used to help in cutting and preparing the things as well as cleaning the utensils.I also used to buy the food items and vegetables.Will i learn things in future, i have no idea of that.May be i will give a try in coming days.But then success of that needs to be seen.Hope i get time as well.It has not been easy for quiet sometime.Sorry to hear on your wife.Good to hear about your son's friend. Thanks!
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
11 Mar 13
Hi, My son was also living with his friends for 7 years. Now we are together. When he was with his room mates they didn't to prepare food. No one is interested in cooking. They didn't prepare even tea. So they had to be dependent for everything on hotels. So there was no need to wash utensils and cleaning.