Submitted by asterism in AsterismOvershares
Long ago wife and I split cooking responsibilities equally, which worked well. But now (because of my work schedule) she does the vast majority of the cooking. But she is not a good cook so I'm getting tired of eating bad food. But if I give even a single helpful suggestion she gets all defensive. So most days I just make my own food, which works ok because she wants to eat non-vegan stuff sometimes. But god damn you ever eat soggy pasta with half cooked store bought sauce? or you ever had a totally unseasoned taco (I mean she literally just puts some beans in a pan and then opens up some canned tomatoes if I am lucky she'll make some rice)? Because I eat those a lot.
All this to say, any easy way to help wife not suck at cooking? If the answer is no I will carry on making my own food which is just fine too.
lettuceLeafer wrote (edited )
Damn I know your wife isn't great but she is like the 1 percent of adapting to their vegan partner. Most omnia especially men throw a fit. Actually a ton of people stop being vegan just due to constant pressure from their partners. No study or anything just a lot of anecdotes. Her adapting so we'll is actually super duper caring.
Soup is easy as shit. You don't have to worry about cooking to much. You just kinda cut stuff up, put it in pot and make sure it doesn't boil over or run out of water. Stuff like dried split peas and lentils are honestly the only dried foods I can tolerate waiting to cook without a pressure cooking. Also since ur new to vegan if u start to cook beans you can be super lax on food safety though you have to worry about lectins. Like if u cook beans in non boiling water u basically poison yourself.
Stir frys are also fairly easy though honestly I stopped eating it because oil and doing stir fry with no oil is hard to not burn. Honestly just eating like random whole foods separately is pretty good. Anything other than that and soup requires some cooking ability.
And to clarify oil is completely vegan I don't eat it because I'd rather eat plant foods with way better nutrients per calorie. But for most people eating oil isn't a big deal if ur not anal retentive like me. So stir frys are nice. I mean they are season stir and fry some and I'm shit together haha
Also have u gotten the new vegan bloating and farting yet. I'm surprised you didn't comment on it.