Ask my wife and she will tell you, she do the house chore while i do the cooking and she likes it so much because she knows i am really good at it.

davidylan:

when you come from a home of just boys, you have to learn to cook. There's virtually nothing i can't cook if i really make up my mind to learn.
I can cook egusi as good as my mom does it, i actually taught a female cousin of mine (who is older than i am anyway) how to make moin-moin! Been ages i made that now

An aunt i lived with then wouldnt eat moin-moin unless i made it and there were 3 girls in the house!!!

A friend taught me to pound yam 2 years ago, and he's a guy!!! He made it much better than my mom ever did!

@davidylan
So good t'know someone had d same experience I did.We're boys only(5 in no) n' mama didn't take no nonsense.By d time each of us wz 10 we were synthesisng all kinds of soup like pros--ewedu ,okra,ugwu y'name it. As per poundin yam?How d'u think I got my biceps? .
Pity I did very lil cookin during my university days-started eating out from my first day in UI.
Besides fryin dodo n'preparin rice,noodles n'd likes I haven't done any real cookin in like 3yrs.
I think the ladies actually do a lot to enforce d stereotype of "guys don't cook"esp while dating.In the last 1yr for instance my fiancee insists on doin d major cookin n'comes at least once a week just to flaunt her culinary skills proceeds of which she then keeps in d freezer to last d comin week.
Since she insists,who am I 2resist?
She's a much better cook anyway;at least now dt I'm quite rusty in culinary matters.

@ Bolarge

Exactly, i agree with you on the girls enforcing the "guys should not cook" steretype. I remember two white girls i dated at some point would always insist on doing the cooking and serving in my own house.

University days na die o! The chics would cook, all you needed to do was just let slip that you liked a certain food and hey presto, the food would appear on your doorstep the very next day! I had a girlfriend then who disliked beans, i did mention i liked it and the very next day i had to skip classes to go eat beans and plantain!!!

Some girls only do that cos that's all they can provide in hopes you wont leave them.

Due to the lame "food is the way to a man's heart" cliche. Bleh.

You should cook WITH her, Bolarge.

ThiefOfHearts:

Some girls only do that because that's all they can provide in hopes you wont leave them.

Due to the lame "food is the way to a man's heart" cliche. Bleh.

You should cook WITH her, Bolarge.

word !

i agree with you ThiefofHearts.

Indeed some girls only do it just to keep you with them, i wont blame them. We the same guys would be the first to jump ship if we met another girl that would do all the housework while we lazed around in the name of stereotype.

I was brought up completely under the "men are the masters of the house" stereotype. My dad does virtually NO housework while my mom does all the cooking, washing, housecleaning, coupled with a demanding job as a private and government paediatrician who works more than 12 hrs of the day!!
And no she ended up being the strongest member of the family. Anytime mummy fell ill, the house practically ground to a halt!

We learned to cook by the time we were 10 yrs, well 12-13 for my younger brothers.
However, an aunt of mine i lived with for 2 yrs cooks only on sundays, her husband is the worst cook in the world (can only boil water!), of course all the time i spent there i did all the cooking with friends and cousins!

Another uncle of mine does all the laundry in his house, plus wife and baby stuff though now he's got some help with the baby stuff.

And these guys are NIGERIANS!!!!!! Imagine my shock when the fellow told me he lost his wedding ring while washing his wife's clothes, i could not imagine that a man did that too!!! I have stopped wondering why the wives to these guys would rather die than lose their husbands!

davidylan:

I was brought up completely under the "men are the masters of the house" stereotype. My dad does virtually NO housework while my mom does all the cooking, washing, housecleaning, coupled with a demanding job as a private and government paediatrician who works more than 12 hrs of the day!!

That's horrible.

My mom works so many hrs(nurse), she cant afford to have a husband that didnt help out. He helps out with everything.
Im proud of my dad

Hope you dont let that sterotype follow you when you get married

no i cant,

i learnt to do household stuff from a very early age. my dad never learnt.

True, but some guys learn but later on dont bother to put it to use anymore.
They rather rely on others.

lol, interesting topic! well, i don't want to brag, but i tell u if u eat my food, ur life will never remain the same, gbam!

i actually grew up in a boys only home, so mum had to practically beg us lo learn cooking (now mum is da best, believe me) but while my siblings learnt and helped out in the kitchen, i'll refuse doing any work. but hey. . . i was watching!!!

first few times i cooked on campus, it was wack! but gradually i remembered stuff, and honed my skills beautifully. so when i decided to cook at home for the first time (except boil yam, make eba e.t.c, i been doing those b4) they were initially skeptical. but u should have seen the look on their faces after the first taste! now they can't get enuff of me. hell, i even beat my mums fried rice!!

Now I wish you didnt make me yell at you in the other thread.

anyway that's great that you can make those dishes. Love good fried rice

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so jammin', what are you good at making?[tt]


welllllll i do most everyday caribbeancuisine. Jerk chicken steamed Fish, stew peas, a range of curried stuff, especially curry goat and of course
ackee N saltfish with fried Dumplins.

If you want to learn, i can teach you how to do these dishes.


can someone tell me how to get that quote thingy working right

It's {quote}  then {/quote} you dork except you use the straight brackets instead

and why would you make such things if you are supposedly a vegetarian  [quote][/quote]

On another forum I belong to, there's a whole discussion with recipes that people put up, pictures of the dishes etc. This could be the same thing.

I grew up in all-boys home too, so I learned to cook some basic stuff from my mom and I live by myself, so you've got to be able to whip up something every once in a while. Sadly, I'm not as good with Naija food (beyond stew, rice, and maybe eba) as I am with foreign dishes. I can make basic Chinese, Mexican, and Italian foods, with some creations of my own thrown in on the side. I'll try to put up some photos of some fish in coconut sauce that I've been thinking about making if I get to it this weekend.

TerraCotta:
I'll try to put up some photos of some fish in coconut sauce .

Ewwwwwwwwwww

I guess you don't like Thai food. Don't worry--it will be strictly eba and ewedu for you.

Why cant you just get it? did i say i was a vegitarian where food was concerned??

I SAID!!! am a vegetarian, "Where women were concerned" Jeez!!!

no you're not. You eat it all

haha. i am no glutton. i know when i am biting off more than i can lick,sorry, chew!!!

Yes i can.

What i cook most at home is beans. lol

I can cook some other dishes sha o.

i wonder why some guys cant cook cos i can do ALL! cook, bake, fry, boil, grill, roast, Im proud i can do all that. thanks to my mom.

Jeez, my brother needs to learn something from you guys!!!!!!

male are still the best chefs in the world and am so proud to be part of them.

Omoooor. Huge fact!

I sure can

Let any dudetTe trying to pasS thru ma' sTomaCh to ma' hearT look for an0theR rouTe 'cos I own that waY already

Whatever

chrisoml:

male are still the best chefs in the world and am so proud to be part of them.

really! maybe u ppl should stay in the kitchen then

a wife cooking might be a mutual choice between both the husband and the wife so i dont see anything wrong with that, my wife will do all the cooking whenever i get married however i dont mind helping out with maybe cutting onions,veggies n all that, as for pounding yam hell no,even tho i dont want my gurl to have yammy calf/thights or yammy arms,
learning how to cook these days and i have fried rice,jollof rice,locked down,egusi just ok but im not all that bothered as my wife ll take care of the cookng

and when she has to travel, you'll be left looking like mugun?

ma only pro is soup